OCHA: The current humanitarian situation in Gaza is the worst since the war began – the seventh day

A spokesman for the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) warned Yenos Lerkk that the current humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip is the worst ever since the beginning of the war in the Strip .. He said, “The humanitarian crisis in Gaza has reached unprecedented levels, as more than two million people, most of them women and children, are starving because no aid has been allowed during the past fifty days, according to the United Nations.”

A spokesman for (Ocha) added, in press statements on Tuesday, that this is the longest period without aid or commercial supplies that enter the sector since the war began in October 2023.

More than 2.1 million people in the Gaza Strip face a severe lack of food, medicine, fuel and clean water, although on the other side of the border, humanitarian supplies, including nearly 3 thousand trucks of life -saving aid prepared by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), which the Israeli authorities refuse to allow it to enter.

“Hunger is spreading and deliberately worsening and man -made, and humanitarian aid is used as a bargaining card and a war weapon.”

UNRWA warned that supplies inside Gaza almost ran out, as food stocks are rarely running out, and only 250 food papers remained, as the flour has run out and bakeries closed their doors, hospitals collapsed without fuel or medications, and the prices of basic materials rose sharply.

“More than two million people, most of whom are women and children, are subjected to collective punishment. The siege, supplies must be raised and the ceasefire resumed,” Lazarini said.

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