‘Man-made’ mass starvation in Gaza, WHO chief says | Israel-Gaza war
The President of the World Health Organization said that a large part of the Gaza population died of hunger. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said, orum I don’t know what you say except for mass of mass stars-and human-making. ”
In the meantime, the aid organizations called for Israel to alleviate the aid blockage as the Palestinians died of starvation.
Gaza Health Administration said on Wednesday that at least 10 people have died of hunger in the last 24 hours and brought to 111 from hunger, including 80 children.
More than 100 aid organizations previously issued a warning that mass hunger has spread to Gaza, and called for Israel to leave humanitarian aid in the siege of humanitarian aid to alleviate the growing human -made hunger crisis.
109 A letter, including OXFAM International and International Amnesty International, said that the Israeli government prevents humanitarian aid to distribute life -saving assistance effectively.
The agencies said, “Just outside Gaza, in the warehouses – and even in Gaza – tons of food, clean water, medical equipment, shelter items and fuel, and humanitarian aid organizations that prevent them from accessing or delivering them.” “The restrictions, delays and disintegration of the Israeli Government under the total siege created chaos, hunger and death.”
In a statement, a charity worker in Gaza said: “Children say to their parents that they want to go to heaven, because at least they have food food.”
The letter comes because the increasing number of people in Gaza began to die from the lack of food, and the aid groups have warned for months as a result of a hunger crisis. The reports of a few aid distribution points of the people who fainted for a long walk and the pictures of the bodies with ribs have become widespread.
Daily aid distribution is an average of approximately 28 trucks equivalent of humanitarian goods. Before the war, about 500 trucks assistance was allowed to feed more than 2 million inhabitants.
As the hunger spread, the killing of Israeli civilians increased. A person was killed by Israel every 12 minutes in July and made him one of the most deadly months of the Gaza War, Analysis of UN data It was clear.
Palestinian health officials, Wednesday, Israeli strikes at least 21 people, more than half of women and children said. The Israeli army said it was a “deepening” activity in Gaza City and Northern Gaza.
Two Palestinian journalists among the dead, Tamer Al-Za’anin and pregnant Walaa Al-Jabari The number of media workers killed in the region 229 Since the beginning of the war.
Israel, Gaza’s field hospital player Director Dr. Marwan Al-Hams reported that the Association Press reported until the end of the month. HAMS was arrested at the beginning of this week and has a fiery wound on his leg, which he reportedly continued during his detention.
The food in Israel is now distributed by the US and Israeli -backed Gaza Humanitarian Relief Foundation (GHF) and their sites by the UN officials “death traps”. Previous Guardian reports chronic the dangers faced by those looking for food from GHF fields of Palestinians.
The GHF claims that the Palestinian group Hamas prevented Hamas from stealing food through the distribution areas, which is a point echoed by Israel. Humanitarian auxiliary condemned the organization because they said that the hunger of armed hunger was a violation of aid principles and potential complexity in war crime.
UN officials reported that the Israeli army has killed more than 1,000 Palestinians who have been trying to reach food distribution areas since May.
According to the Gaza Ministry of Health, Israel has killed at least 72 Palestinians in the last 24 hours. Israel also attacked the World Health Organization facilities in Deir Al-Balah and canceled the visa of the most senior UN aid official in Gaza.
As the Israeli military activity in Gaza concentrated, the ceasefire acceleration was growing. USA Middle East ambassador, Steve Witkoff, He was going to Rome on Wednesday, where he was expected to meet the best Israeli adviser Ron Dermer and Palestinian negotiators.
If progress is made in the agreement, Witkoff will go to Doha, where indirect negotiations take place between the two sides.
Last week, serious obstacles continued, but in the ceasefire agreement, Hamas and Israel slowly established a bridge. A source of Israel said that Israel is still waiting for an expected HAMAS response next day.
28 countries, including the British and other Israeli allies on July 21st published an expression To put an end to the war in Gaza and to label it as “unacceptable ı as Israel’s rejection of fundamental humanitarian aid”. The statement also spoke against the Israeli settler violence in the West Bank, and Israel plans to carry the Palestinians to a “human city çalış that is defined by a former Israeli Prime Minister as“ concentration camp ve and accompanying ethnic cleanliness.
The expression did not mention any concrete policy steps against the Israeli government if he did not threaten the sanctions while being expressed in a powerful way or did not change the route.
On Wednesday, the letter from humanitarian institutions calls for direct action. Piece arrangements and symbolic gestures, such as AirDrops or defective aid agreements, serve as a curtain for inertia. They cannot replace states of states’ legal and moral obligations to protect Palestinian civilians and provide significant access to scale, or he says.
The Israeli army sees the transmission of humanitarian aid to Gaza as an extremely important issue ve and works to facilitate the coordination with the international community.
He rejected the accusations that the assistance prevented Gaza and accused Hamas of stealing food refused by Hamas.
After the attack led by Hamas dated 7 October 2023, more than 59,000 people were killed in Gaza with a military campaign led by Hamas, where approximately 1,200 people were killed.
