The population lacks everything. The United Nations Agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) said on Monday, July 21 that he received “desperate messages that report the famine” of some of his employees in the Gaza Strip in the war.
UN and NGOs regularly report a risk of famine in the Palestinian territory besieged by Israel after more than 21 months of conflict, caused by an unprecedented attack of the Islamist movement Hamas in the Israeli soil on October 7, 2023.
The doctors, the Gaza Civil Defense and the doctors of the NGOs Without Borders (MSF) have reported a strong increase in cases of malnutrition in recent days. In a message posted in X, Unrwa said Monday that the shortage in Gaza had resulted in a price of 40 food prices.
“Lift the seat and let humanitarian aid enter safely already a large scale,” implores the UN organization that said it had actions outside Gaza to feed the more than two million Gazaouis for more than three months.
18 hunger people in 24 hours
Israel softened very partially at the end of May a total blocking imposed on the Gaza Strip in early March, which led to a very serious shortage of food, drugs and other basic needs. According to the Hamas Government Ministry of Government, 18 people are hungry in 24 hours between Saturday and Sunday.
“Babies under one year old suffer a lack of milk, which leads to significant weight loss and a fall in their immunity,” said Mohammed Abu Salmiya, director of the Al-Chifa hospital in Gaza.
Israel, however, said Monday that “there was no prohibition or restriction in the entry of nursery milk or baby food in Gaza.” “Our commitment is still firm: support humanitarian aid to civilians, and not in Hamas,” Cogat, Israeli organization in charge of civil affairs in the Palestinian territories in X.
The attack of October 7 led to the Israeli side of the death of 1,219 people, mostly civilians, according to an AFP count of official data. Israel launched a destructive offensive in retaliation in which at least 58,895 people, mainly civil, were killed, according to data from the Ministry of Health in Gaza, considered reliable by the UN.
Source: BFM TV
