FOOD SHORTAGE: Over 2 million people in Gaza are now experiencing acute food shortages. The picture is from Rafah, right next to the Egyptian border, on 20 December. Photo: Hatem Ali / AP / NTB
The UN asks the international community to use all its influence to stop the acts of war against civilians.
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Sunday marks three months since the Hamas attack on Israel and the start of Israel’s attack on the Gaza Strip. Since then, the number of people killed in Gaza has exceeded 22,000, according to the Palestinian Red Crescent.
Over two million people are trapped inside Gaza as the Israeli bombs continue to fall.
– Especially for children, the last 12 weeks have been traumatic: No food. No water. No school. Nothing but the terrifying sounds of war, day in and day out, writes UN emergency aid chief Martin Griffiths in a statement on Friday.
– Families sleep outside while the temperatures drop. Areas where civilians were asked to move for their own safety have been bombed. Medical facilities are continuously attacked. The few hospitals that are partially functioning are overwhelmed by traumatic cases, critically short of supplies and overwhelmed by desperate people seeking safety, Griffiths writes in the UN statement.
– Public health disaster
The head of emergency aid calls it a public health disaster, and says that famine is just around the corner.
– Infectious diseases spread in overcrowded shelters while sewage overflows. Around 180 Palestinian women give birth daily in the midst of this chaos. People are facing the highest levels of food insecurity ever recorded.
– Gaza has simply become uninhabitable. The population there witness daily threats to their existence – while the world watches, writes Griffiths.
– We continue to demand an immediate end to the war, not only for the people of Gaza and their threatened neighbors, but for future generations who will never forget these 90 days of hell, he continues.
INJURED: A wounded Palestinian child, who was taken to a hospital in Rafah on 12 December. Photo: Hatem Ali / AP / NTB
Griffiths calls on the parties to fulfill all their obligations under international law, including the protection of civilians and meeting their basic needs, as well as the immediate release of all hostages.
– It is time for the international community to use all its influence to make this happen.
THE BOMB: Searching for survivors of Israeli airstrike on October 18. Photo: Abed Khaled / AP / NTB
– Hell on earth
Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide (Ap) calls the situation in Gaza “hell on earth”.
– Through the entire UN system, they now say that there is no worse place on the planet, no worse humanitarian crisis than the one in Gaza, he told VG on Friday.
In the next few days, new markings have been announced around Norway, which protest against Israel’s warfare and in support of people in Gaza.
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Published: 06.01.24 at 00:33
2024-01-05 23:33:23
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