19 UN aid agencies have called for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza

19 United Nations relief agencies called for an immediate ceasefire and renewed aid to the United Nations Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) in a joint statement on Thursday local time.

“No amount of humanitarian aid will make up for the long months that Gazan families have been deprived of aid,” the statement said. This is our attempt to save humanitarian operations.”
Other demands of UN leaders include the release of prisoners, protection of civilians and infrastructure, border crossing points and security guarantees for aid delivery, a stable communication network with passable roads and neighborhoods cleared of Explosives pointed out.

The letter also called on world leaders to act quickly “to prevent a worse catastrophe”.

WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has warned that the “inhumane” health situation in Gaza is worsening, with a recent UN survey showing that more than 15 percent of children under the age of 2 in northern Gaza They are facing acute malnutrition.

Adhanom said: As the war drags on and aid is cut off, this figure will increase.

Earlier this week, the World Food Program suspended aid deliveries to northern Gaza due to a lack of security. Aid agencies have warned that hunger and disease can be a deadly combination.

According to the United Nations World Food Program, this decision was taken after a World Food Program convoy traveling north from Gaza City was “surrounded by a crowd of hungry people near the Gaza Wadi checkpoint” on Sunday. took When the same convoy tried to resume its journey north on Monday, it was met with “total chaos and violence due to the breakdown of civil order”.

The UN World Food Program added: “Several trucks were looted between Khan Yunis and Deir al-Bahlah, and a truck driver was beaten. The remaining flour was distributed in trucks in Gaza City amid high tension and explosive anger, it said in a statement on Tuesday. The decision to stop food deliveries to the northern Gaza Strip has been difficult and means that the situation in the area will worsen and more people are at risk of dying from starvation.

According to the analysis of the Global Nutrition Cluster, which is active in the field of humanitarian aid led by the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF), 15.6 percent of children under the age of two in northern Gaza are acutely malnourished. The Israeli army almost completely cut off aid to northern Gaza for weeks.

On October 15, 1402, on October 7, 2023, the Palestinian resistance groups launched a surprise operation called “Al-Aqsa Storm” from Gaza (southern Palestine) against the positions of the Israeli regime. On November 24, 2023, a four-day temporary ceasefire was established between Israel and Hamas, or a pause for the exchange of prisoners between Hamas and Israel.

This pause in the war continued for 7 days and finally on the morning of Friday, December 10, 2023, the temporary ceasefire ended and the Israeli regime resumed attacks on Gaza. In order to retaliate for the surprise attacks of the “Al-Aqsa storm” and to compensate for its failure and stop the resistance operations, this regime has closed all the crossings of the Gaza Strip and is bombarding this area.

The Gaza Ministry of Health announced that the number of martyrs in Gaza since the start of the Israeli war in Gaza on October 7 (15 Mehr) has reached 28,858 people and the number of wounded has reached 68,677 people.

Source: IRNA