UN condemns Israel preventing entry of all types of aid to Gaza
The United Nations has slammed “very serious” impact of the Israeli regime preventing all types of aid from Gaza Strip for fifty days.
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The UN Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric made the remarks during a press conference held last night at UN headquarters in New York.
Dujarric explained that the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) confirmed that no food, fuel, medicine, or other essential supplies have entered Gaza for 50 days.
He added that food stocks have decreased "dangerously" during this period, and that medicines, medical supplies, and vaccines are running out. He noted that children and adults are suffering from hunger, and that the health system in the Strip is on the verge of collapse.
He added, "Hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced, and Israeli attacks on humanitarian and health workers have increased again."
Israel has repeatedly used food and international humanitarian aid as a tool of collective pressure against Palestinians over 18 months of its devastating war on the Gaza Strip.
The Israeli minister of military affairs, Israel Katz, has recently admitted that the regime is determined to use aid blockade as one of the main pressure levers against Hamas resistance movement.
Civilians in the enclave have been subjected to extreme food shortages and famine-like conditions throughout the war.
Dozens of children have died of starvation and countless others have succumbed to wounds or preventable illnesses during a deteriorating man-made humanitarian disaster.