UNRWA condemns Israel for weaponizing humanitarian aid in Gaza
The UN agency for Palestinian refugees has denounced the Israeli regime over weaponization of the humanitarian aid in Gaza calling on the regime to allow the UNRWA members access the civilians in northern Gaza.
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More than 170,000 Palestinians have been trapped in northern Gaza with no medicine, water or food as Israeli regime forces laid siege on the area for over two weeks.
The UN organization reiterated in a post on X the urgent request by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) to the Israeli occupation authorities “to allow access in order to carry out lifesaving rescue operations in (northern) Gaza, including the recovery of people trapped under rubble.”
UNRWA detailed in another post the health situation in the north of Gaza stating that none of UNRWA’s medical points are operational, nonetheless, its teams are ready but in desperate need of medical supplies to be able to provide care.
It added that patients in the ICU have died following power cuts due to Israeli strikes on hospital facilities, stressing that the Kamal Adwan and Al-Awda hospitals are operating at minimum capacity due to an acute shortage of medical supplies and staff.
On his part, UNRWA’s Commissioner-General, Philippe Lazzarini, stated in a post on his X account that the Israeli occupation authorities “continue to deny humanitarian missions to reach the north with critical supplies including medicine and food for people under siege.”
“Hospitals have been hit and are left without power while injured people are left without care,” he continued.
The commissioner-general quoted reports that spoke of the devastating humanitarian conditions under which Palestinians in the north are living during the latest Israeli deadly military operation that entered its third week.
According to Gaza’s Ministry of Health, 42,603 Palestinians have been killed, and 99,795 wounded in Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza starting on October 7, 2023.
Palestinian and international organizations say that the majority of those killed and wounded are women and children.
The Israeli war has resulted in an acute famine, mostly in northern Gaza, resulting in the death of many Palestinians, mostly children.
