Speaking of Gaza City in the north of the occupied territory, Olga Cherevko of the United Nations Coordination Office, Ochhasaid that the water pumps had stopped on a site for people displaced there Wednesday “Because there is no fuel”.
“We are really – unless the situation changes – A few hours before a catastrophic decline and a closure of more installations if no fuel penetrates or more fuel is not immediately recovered, “she said News News.
In its latest emergency update, OCHA said that without immediate fuel entry or access to reserves, 80% of Gaza intensive care units for births and medical emergencies will close.
More killed by looking for help
Development comes as the Gaza authorities reported that 15 people had been killed near a help center for aid center on Thursday.
On Tuesday, not verified videos from another incident circulating on social networks have shown corpses in the street near a rescue center in the southern city of Khan Younis, which would have followed an artillery fire.
Finding food is a daily challenge for increasingly desperate Gazans who are “Just wait for food and hope to find something so as not to look at their children starving before their eyes“Said Ms. Cherevko.
She added: “I spoke with a woman a few days ago when she told me that she had gone with one of her friends who was nine months pregnant in the hope of finding food.
Of course, they did not succeed because they were too afraid of entering areas where there could be incidents like those who have been reported in the past few days. »»
Search for shelter
Back in Gaza City, Ms. Cherenko of Ocha said that the conditions in the shelters in Gaza are now “absolutely horrible” and more and more congested – “there are people who come constantly from the north,” added the veteran, while others are also going north, probably closer to the entry points for aid conveyors.
The quantity of help entering Gaza today remains extremely limited and well below the 600 trucks per day which reached the enclave before the start of the war in October 2023. In its last updateOcha reported that “famine and an increasing probability of famine” are still present in the enclave. It is estimated that 55,000 pregnant women are now confronted with miscarriage, mortincy and undernourished newborns following the food shortage.
The explosions smoke rises from the Shujaia district of Gaza City.
Famine regime
“With the very limited aid volume that has entered, Everyone continues to face famine and people are constantly risking their lives to try to find something“Continued Ms. Cherevko.
“” You eat or [you’re] left with the choice to die of hunger to death. “”
After more than 20 months of war, triggered by terrorist attacks led by Hamas in Israel, 82% of the Gaza territory is either a militarized Israeli area, or affected by evacuation orders.
Three months since hostilities re -granted on March 18, more than 680,000 people were newly moved. “Without a safe place, many people have sought refuge in all available spaces, including overcrowded travel sites, makeshift shelters, damaged buildings, streets and open areas,” said Ocha.
Publicado anteriormente en Almouwatin.
