Ginebra. The UN estimated this Tuesday that the population of the Gaza Strip was facing the worst restrictions limiting humanitarian aid since the start of the war a year ago, warning especially of the devastating impact of this situation on children.
“The situation for children is worse every day than the last,” said James Elder, spokesman for the United Nations Children’s Fund, Unicef.
The Israeli retaliatory offensive in the Gaza Strip for the attacks by the Islamist movement Hamas on October 7, 2023 in Israel devastated large areas of the Palestinian territory.
The Israeli army has intensified its operations in the north of the enclave, where hundreds of thousands of people are trapped, according to the UN.
“The amount of humanitarian aid sent to the Gaza Strip in August was the lowest in a month since the war broke out,” Elder said, adding that there have been “several days over the past week [en los que] “No truck was allowed to enter.”
“We are probably witnessing the worst restrictions ever seen in terms of humanitarian aid,” he denounced.
At the beginning of the year, when the UN feared a famine in the Gaza Strip, there was “a real pressure to open new routes and new access points,” Elder stressed.
But today, “the situation is completely the opposite,” he explained, adding that since May, “the entry points were systematically blocked.”
The north of the strip “did not receive any food, any food aid during the entire month of October,” he lamented.
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