More than 30,000 Palestinians have lost their lives in Gaza Strip, according to a new announcement by Hamas. At the same time, millions of trapped civilians are called upon to survive by the relentless Israelis bombingswhile they are also threatened by famine.
Every day, civilians are lost in battles and bombings, from which no area is spared. Entire neighborhoods have been reduced to piles of rubble and 1.7 million Palestinians from 2.4 million which is the total population of the Gaza Strip they were forced to leave their homes.
At the same time, the US and Qatar are insisting on expressing their hope for a ceasefire agreement in the near future before Ramadan, the Muslim holy month, begins around March 11.
“Huge humanitarian needs”
According to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), humanitarian needs in the Strip Gaza Strips are “unrestricted”.
“It is taking the form of a famine. Hospitals have turned into battlefields. One million children are faced with daily injury,” he emphasizes.
On Wednesday, the representative of the Hamas Health Ministry, Mr Ashraf al-Kudra, announced that two more children died due to “dehydration and malnutrition” at Ash Shifa Hospital in Gaza City (north). The number of children who died due to starvation rose to six in the past few days, he added.
The international community is increasingly concerned about the humanitarian catastrophe that would be caused by a ground attack — repeatedly announced by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu — in Rafah, on the Gaza Strip’s closed border with Egypt, where some one and a half million internally displaced people are trapped. .
But Netanyahu reiterated his army will defeat Hamas in its “last stronghold”, Rafah, within “a few weeks”, declaring that even if a ceasefire is declared, the offensive will not “delay”.
The target of daily Israeli bombardments lately, Rafah, which had some 270,000 inhabitants before the war, is the main gateway to the Gaza Strip, but its volumes are very limited.
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