The UN’s humanitarian office, OCHA, warned on Tuesday that Gaza is facing its worst humanitarian situation yet, as a total Israeli blockade on humanitarian aid and all other goods has been imposed for more than 50 days.
“Right now is probably the worst humanitarian situation we have seen throughout the war in Gaza,” Jens Laerke, a spokesperson for OCHA, said at a press briefing in Geneva, according to Turkey’s Anadolu Agency.
Also on Tuesday, the UN’s Palestinian relief agency, UNRWA, said Gaza had become a “land of desperation” and warned of spreading hunger.
“Hunger is spreading & deepening, deliberate & manmade,” UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini wrote on X. “Two million people: a majority of women & children are undergoing collective punishment.”
Lazzarini said that aid trucks, including 3,000 from UNRWA, are ready to enter Gaza but are being blocked by Israel. “The siege must be lifted, supplies must flow in, the hostages must be released, the ceasefire must resume,” he said.
The US has strongly backed Israel’s collective punishment of the civilian population of Gaza. US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee released a video statement on Monday in response to calls for him to pressure Israel to allow humanitarian aid into Gaza and blamed Hamas for the Israeli blockade.
Last week, 12 major aid organizations issued a statement that said the “people of Gaza – particularly women and children – are paying the price” and that “famine is not just a risk, but likely rapidly unfolding in almost all parts of Gaza.”
It’s the plan.
It's the plan and so far it's working for them. All the world does is expose it and write about it hoping for some kind of miracle to materialize.
I really see it as a test for world humanity.
We failed. Period.
God must be so busy on other worlds and planets with living beings to give its full attention on the minute planet earth… But can see its humanity is failing, not according to what was planned originally…! Time for a reboot and start a new Life Cycle on planet Earth… And we all deserve it…!
Just not the bad apples who do it.
It looks like it but it is not done yet. No matter how many comments about Israel and Gaza youTube keeps deleting and shadow banning form me I keep on writing. If nothing else it is energy flowing out there into the universe. I do the same on Newsmax. They don't ban anything but the commenters – over 90% MAGA – get furious.
If people have a little extra money (I don't have much on Soc Sec only) but give some to "Doctors without borders" from time to time and have bought some stuff from the Palestine shop once.
The power of USA, has demolished the effectiveness of the UN, the governments of Western democratic nations are cowards, corrupt and without any morality to make an effort to block it. They supported sanctions against Hamas as soon as they won the election. The Palestinians knew the PA was no more than US vassals, the settlements of Zionist illegal occupiers on the WB prove them right.
Those who were nearly exterminated, think nothing of it as they seem hell bent upon doing it unto the Palestinians!….!….!…..
The Zionist settlers from up- state NY are the once most hell bent evil perpetrators of cruelty and genocide. They only care about their benefits Tel Aviv pays them for robbing land and killing Palestinians without seeing anything wrong with the crimes they perform to get it. For NY it is good riddance of such people.
Donna, the reality proves you wrong, survivors and even relatives of survivors oppose the Zionists. I don't know of a single survivor who came out publicly in support of the treatment by Zionist-Israelis on Palestinians. But I recall some videos of survivors opposed to it. Norman Finkelstein is the most famous one I know of.
Kill them… Starve them… Or do both to add to your resume facing the world and the final judgment day…!