UN says all attempts to reach besieged north Gaza this month blocked
The UN humanitarian agency, OCHA, says the UN has been unable to reach people in Jabalia, Beit Lahiya and Beit Hanoon, in the north of the Gaza Strip, as it continues to face denials from Israeli authorities.
“Between 1 and 25 November, the UN attempted to reach these besieged areas 41 times,” OCHA said in its latest update. “Thirty-seven of these attempts were outright denied, while four were initially approved, but then severely impeded on the ground such that the assistance could not be delivered to people trapped in the besieged area,” OCHA said.
“Coordinated aid missions to areas in [the] Rafah governorate, where there has been an ongoing Israeli military operation since early May, have faced similar challenges.”
Desperately hungry people in Gaza search through rubbish for food
The UN agency for Palestinian refugees has said that people in Gaza are so hungry that they are increasingly “scavenging through weeks-old waste” to find something to eat.
The conditions in the enclave are set to deteriorate even further as cold winter weather sets in, according to the agency, which called for more “immediate humanitarian aid”.
Numerous human rights organisations have accused Israel of deliberately obstructing aid to Palestinian civilians in Gaza during the conflict, thereby using starvation as a weapon of war.
North Gaza under Israeli siege for nearly two months
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