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Ceasefire needed to address Gaza’s humanitarian crisis: UNRWA
Adnan Abu Hasna, a spokesman for the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, has told our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic that the humanitarian crisis in Gaza cannot be addressed without a ceasefire.
Here are some of the other points he made:
- Most Gaza newborns are underweight and undersized due to malnutrition.
- Hundreds of aid trucks must enter the Gaza Strip daily.
- Israel is required to provide safe passage for aid trucks.
- Aid to Gaza must reach UN warehouses for distribution.
- Gaza’s desalination plants are destroyed, leading to the spread of disease due to water contamination.
GHF aid system in Gaza ‘scandal, and shameful’: French foreign minister
Jean-Noel Barrot, France’s top diplomat, says a US and Israel-backed aid distribution system in Gaza had generated a “bloodbath” and had to cease activity.
“I want to call for the cessation of the activities of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, the militarised distribution of humanitarian aid that has generated a bloodbath in distribution lines in Gaza, which is a scandal, which is shameful, and has to stop,” Barrot told reporters after meeting his Cyprus counterpart in Nicosia.
Aid seekers in Gaza seen from space in satellite footage
Amid a starvation crisis in the Gaza Strip, crowds of Palestinians seeking aid have been so vast that they can be seen in satellite images taken from space.
Desperation grows as Gaza’s aid warehouses remain empty
The little aid getting into Gaza is not enough to stop Israel’s policy of starvation.
The United Nations humanitarian affairs agency says people are still dying of hunger and malnutrition.
‘Desperate souls’: Starving Gaza residents pick through airdropped rice mixed with sand
Footage shared online shows scenes of children and elderly residents racing to collect rice mixed with sand after being airdropped on the besieged Gaza Strip.
The clips, posted by Palestinian activists and journalists, were verified by Al Jazeera.
“Planes drop aid. Desperate souls compete for it in order to survive,” said journalist Motasem Adly, adding that what is happening “sums up the tragedy of a people besieged from all sides”.
“The starving people of Gaza are fed rice covered in sand, which was humiliatingly dropped on the displaced by the aerial bombardment planes,” Salma Kaddoumi wrote.
