The United Nations Acting Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator has referred to the desperate situation in Gaza and condemned the international community for lack of any tangible action to stop the ongoing Israeli genocide in Gaza.

Joyce Msuya, underlined the devastating humanitarian situation in Gaza saying that “we are witnessing acts reminiscent of the gravest international crimes.”

“Essential commercial goods and services including electricity have been all but cut off. This has led to increasing hunger, starvation, and now, as we have heard, potentially famine,” Msuya said, speaking at a Security Council session on Palestine on Tuesday.

“We have condemned the death, destruction, and dehumanization of civilians in Gaza who have been driven from their homes, stripped of their sense of place and dignity, forced to witness their family members killed, burned, and buried alive,” Msuya said.

The acting under-secretary accentuated the horrific situation that the children of Gaza have been subjected to since the genocidal war started on October 7 of last year saying, “Injured children have had the words ‘Wounded Child, No Surviving Family,’ penned on their arms,” Msuya told member states.

She went on to say that most of the besieged Strip has been turned into “a wasteland of rubble” after a year of a relentless genocidal war launched by Israel last year.

On the topic of the ongoing military atrocities in northern Gaza and the siege being imposed on tens of thousands of Palestinians in the area, Msuya described it as “an intensified, extreme and accelerated version of the horrors of the past year.”

“Shelters, homes, and schools have been burned and bombed to the ground,” she said, adding that numerous families remain trapped under the rubble due to the lack of fuel for digging machinery and Israeli forces preventing rescue teams from reaching them.

The UN official confirmed Israel’s systematic attacks on the healthcare system in the ravaged Strip.

She also slammed Israel for its continued siege of the north and forced displacement of Palestinians from the area towards the south of the Strip noting that “around 75,000 people remain with dwindling water and food supplies” due to Israel’s blockade of humanitarian aid.

Regarding the situation in the Strip, Msuya confirmed that living conditions are “unfit for human survival”, adding that, “Food is insufficient. Shelter items – needed ahead of winter – are in extremely short supply.”

The UN official slammed Israel for continuing to undermine the international community through measures like banning the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA).

The UN acting undersecretary concluded by demanding that Israel respect international humanitarian and human rights law, as a member state of the UN Security Council, and protect the lives of civilians.

Msuya called on holding those responsible accountable for their crimes in accordance with international laws.

Currently on trial before the International Court of Justice for genocide against Palestinians, Israel has been waging a devastating war on Gaza since October 7.

According to Gaza’s Ministry of Health, 43,552 Palestinians have been killed and 102,765 wounded in Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza starting on October 7, 2023. According to Gaza Health Ministry, most of the casualties are women and children.