Action Against Hunger is shocked and concerned that after a year of violence, our humanitarian staff and colleagues continue to witness and suffer the consequences of an outbreak of violence of incomprehensible scale in the Strip. Gaza.
On Sunday October 13, 2024, just 300 meters from the Action Against Hunger office in Deir al-Balah, an Israeli airstrike targeted <a href="https://www.world-today-news.com/humanitarian-crisis-in-gaza-strip-ceasefire-reached-after-five-days-of-rocket-attacks/" title="Humanitarian crisis in Gaza Strip: Ceasefire reached after five days of rocket attacks”>Al Aqsa Hospital, setting fire to the tents and affecting the people there. . This is the fourth airstrike on Al Aqsa Hospital in the past ten days.
A few days earlier, on Thursday, October 10, 2024, two healthcare workers were killed in an Israeli airstrike targeting the Rafidah school, which was transformed into a shelter for displaced people, in Deir al-Balah. Six other people working at the Ard El Insan child nutrition center were seriously injured. Earlier in the morning, Action Against Hunger staff had distributed water at the school, once at 8 a.m. and again at 10 a.m. Only an hour later, an airstrike occurred, killing more than 28 people and injuring 50 others, including colleagues working on nutrition activities. Israeli forces had been informed of these humanitarian activities at the Rafidah school.
« The crisis in Gaza is getting worse every day. The violence we are witnessing after a year of conflict is affecting civilians, aid workers, hospitals, schools and shelters. All parties must do everything in their power to ensure respect for international humanitarian law “, said Natalia Anguera, Action Against Hunger Operations Manager in the Middle East.
Action Against Hunger condemns the fact that civilians, humanitarian and health workers, as well as essential civilian infrastructure, continue to be targeted and strongly recalls the need for an immediate and lasting ceasefire.
Action Against Hunger has worked in the occupied Palestinian territories since 2002 and in the Gaza Strip since 2005. Since October 2023, our staff have responded to the current crisis by providing more than 1.1 million people with food, water, sanitation, hygiene and nutrition interventions.
