Communications systems in the Gaza Strip are out of order today for the second day in a row, prompting humanitarian aid agencies to suspend cross-border deliveries.
“Gaza now receives only 10% of its daily food needs and dehydration and malnutrition are on the rise, with almost all of the area’s 2.3 million people in need of food,” the World Food Program regional spokesperson said. Middle East, Abeer Etefa.
“People face the immediate possibility of starving to death,” he warned.
“With few trucks entering Gaza and no fuel to distribute food, there is no way to meet current hunger needs,” he said.
According to Abeer Etefa, the disruption of the communications network, which is crucial for coordinating relief efforts, further worsened the situation.
The UN Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) said aid deliveries from Egypt will not reach southern Gaza today.
“We have seen fuel, food, water and humanitarian aid used as weapons of war,” said agency spokeswoman Juliette Touma.
The fuel is needed to power generators that power emergency communications systems, hospitals, desalination plants and other critical infrastructure in Gaza.
Israel has moved deeper into Gaza City and its forces have searched Gaza’s largest hospital, Shifa, for signs of a Hamas command center that the army says is beneath the building.
The military has shown images of what they say is the entrance to a tunnel and found weapons in a truck in the complex, but there is still no evidence of the command center, which Hamas and Shifa deny.
The Palestinian Islamist group Hamas’s unprecedented attack on southern Israel on October 7 killed more than 1,200 people while simultaneously taking more than 240 hostages.
In response, Israel declared war on Hamas, bombed several of the group’s infrastructure facilities in the Gaza Strip and imposed a total siege on the territory, cutting off water, fuel and electricity supplies.
The war between Israel and Hamas, which continues to threaten to spread across the Middle East, has so far left 11,500 dead in the Gaza Strip, mostly civilians, 29,800 injured, 3,250 missing in the rubble and more than 1.6 million displaced persons. This is evident from the most recent report from the local authorities.
Source: DN
