Displaced people in the Gaza Strip face hunger amid scarcity of resources and aid (Anatolia)
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) warned on Saturday of worsening levels of hunger in the besieged Gaza Strip, amid rising starvation deaths in the enclave.
In a press conference, UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini expressed concern about the spread of hunger that the Gaza Strip has never seen before, stressing that all residents of the Strip suffer from despair, hunger and panic.
He said that residents stop aid trucks and take food from them, and eat it immediately, which indicates their despair and hunger.
He added that he was appalled by what he called "defamation" campaigns targeting Palestinians and those who help them, considering UNRWA one of the targets of the Israeli war on the Strip as well.
Lazzarini also denounced the "ever-increasing levels of inhumanity" and the lack of global empathy for the lives of Gaza's people.
Activists have reported in recent days the death of starving children in the northern Gaza Strip, while a UN official said on Friday that half of the population of the Gaza Strip suffers from hunger.
The occupation authorities control the number of aid trucks entering the Gaza Strip through the Rafah crossing, as they must be inspected in Israel before entering, while thousands of tons of humanitarian aid are piling up on the Egyptian side of the Rafah crossing.
Gaza needs a thousand trucks of supplies and aid every day, such as baby formula, relief and supply supplies, goods and commodities for markets, medical devices, rescue mechanisms and civil defense, according to the government information office in Gaza.
Source : Al Jazeera + Anatolia