United Nations: 70% of people in the north of the Gaza Strip are facing hunger

According to the report of the international group Tasnim news agency quoting The Palestine Information Center, the spokesperson of the United Nations Office of Humanitarian Affairs in the Palestinian Territories, announced this Monday and emphasized that any ground attack on Rafah would be dangerous and catastrophic.

Pointing out that the amount of destruction in Khan Yunis is unprecedented, he added that there is no safe place in Gaza and the residents of Rafah have nowhere to go.

According to the UN data, in January, about 100 trucks carrying humanitarian aid entered the southern Gaza Strip every day, while even in a non-war situation, the people of Gaza needed about 500 humanitarian aid trucks daily to meet their needs. . This is despite the fact that after January, the number of trucks carrying aid decreased to 66 trucks.

Due to the intensification of the humanitarian crisis and the spread of famine in Gaza, senior international epidemiologists evaluated They say that if the humanitarian crisis in Gaza continues in this way, the number of victims of the hunger crisis and infectious diseases will reach 100,000 in the summer, and if this crisis worsens, more than 120,000 people are expected to die in Gaza. to lose the effects of epidemics and hunger.

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