Updating journalists in Geneva, Dr. Margaret Harris described another night of terror in the war -hired enclave.
She said some of the wounded in the attacks had sought help from the Indonesian hospital in northern Gaza, even if it was now ”Just a shell“After 19 months of war.
“We’ve done our best to bring it back together and they’re doing their best to treat everyone but [medical teams] Missing everything necessary“She insisted.
Rejected accusations that emergency supplies have been handed over to Hamas, the WHO speaker said that “in the healthcare sector we have not seen it. All we see is a desperate need at all times.”
By repeating this message, the UN Aid Coordination Office, OCHA, explained that a strict system of control and reports to donors meant that all relief supplies were closely tracked in real time, making drainage very unlikely.
Even if it happened, ”It is not in a scale that justifies the closure of an entire life -saving aid surgery“Said OCHA speaker Jens Laerke.
“If you had been in a coma for the last three years and you woke up and saw this for the first time, anyone with common sense would say that this is insane.“
The development comes more than 10 weeks since the Israeli authorities stopped all food, fuel, medicine and more from reaching Gaza.
So far, their proposal for an alternative aid distribution platform that bypasses existing UN agencies – widely criticized by the humanitarian community – has not been implemented.
The result has been increasing malnutrition – unknown in Gaza before the war – and threatening famine, while thousands of trucks with significant supplies have had to be stored in Jordan and Egypt, according to UNRWA, the UN Agency for the Palestinian refugees and the greatest helped in Gaza.
In his latest update, OCHA said the UN and its partners have 9,000 trucks with vital supplies ready to move into Gaza. More than half contain food aid that can give months of food to the enclav’s 2.1 million people.
A list of the relief “waiting just out of bounds to enter” illustrates their humanitarian purposes, Mr. Laerke.
Pasta and Stationary: Weapons of War?
It includes educational supplies, child bags, shoes, size three to four years old and up to 10 years old; stationery and toys, rice, wheat flour and beans, eggs, pasta, various sweets, tents, water tanks, cold storage boxes, breastfeeding of kits, breast milk that is substitute, energy couplings, shampoo and hand soap, floor cleaning. I ask you how much war can you lead with this?“
Mr. Laerke said the UN officials have held 14 meetings with the Israeli authorities about their proposed aid scheme, which, if implemented, would limit help to “only part of Gaza” and exclude the most vulnerable.
“It makes hunger a negotiating chip“He maintained.
More than 53,000 people have been killed in Gaza since the war broke out on October 7, 2023 in response to Hamas-led terrorist attacks on Israel, according to the health authorities.
Who said that only 255 patients who need special care outside the strip More than 10,000 patients – including about 4,500 children – who also need urgent medical attention outside Gaza.
In response to this week’s attack on the European General Hospital in Khan Younis, as Dr. Harris noted that it had been used as a meeting place for an evacuation. “The first bombing that you probably know destroyed two of the buses we had gathered to take children,” she added.
On Tuesday, the Security Council heard the UN Top Aid’s official Tom Fletcher called for immediate international pressure to stop Gaza’s “21th century cruelty” – a message reinforced by OCHA’s Mr. Laerke:
“The situation that it has developed now is so grotesque abnormal that some popular pressure on leaders around the world should happen“He said.
“We know it happens, I’m not saying people are silent because they are not. But it doesn’t seem like their leaders are listening to them.”
