“The next days in Gazi will be critical. Today, people do not survive in Gaza, those who do not kill bombs and bullets are slowly dying,” he said.
Whittall emphasized that humanitarian agencies are unable to fulfill the melting of civilians due to the collapse of supply lines. Hospitals are flooded, but medications and equipment are running out. People go hungry, but food warehouses are empty, and bakeries are closing. Clean water is desperately needed, but water wells are inaccessible.
He noted that solid waste piles in the streets without removal equipment, and that the efforts to rescue after air airs are impossible without fuel and machinery. Displaced families are forced to live in ruins without materials for shelter, and fishermen are shot at sea, while humanitarian organizations lack resources to help them. “Nowhere today in Gazi is certainly,” he said.
He added that children need to learn, but schools were destroyed or unavailable, and that educational stocks are not available. The prices of the remaining goods in Gaza continue to grow, but there is no cash. There is no gas or fuel, forcing families to burn garbage to create some energy.
“This does not apply only to humanitarian needs, but is in connection with dignity. Today, the attack is on the dignity of people in Gaza,” he warned.
“We also know that humanitarian workers, first respondents, as journalists, should be protected, as all civilians, but we were killed in the war that seems to fight without any borders,” he added.
Whittall emphasized that the situation in Gaza does not even look like a war. “People in Gaza tell me to feel like it’s deliberate dismantling of Palestinian life in ordinary, for everyone to see, document every day as journalists,” he said.
He described that Devastat testified daily – including children’s bodies thrown by explosions, families burned alive, and colleagues killed – as part of what he called “everyday crimes.”
“As humanitarians, we can see that help is a weapon through its denial,” he warned. “There is no justification to deny humanitarian aid. And humanitarian aid should never be weapons.”
Despite catastrophic conditions, he emphasized that humanitarian organizations continue to work where possible, but “we have less and less supplies and less and less capacity to meet the growing and growing needs.”
“Lifes depend on raising the blockade, to help go in Gaza, they return to the truce,” he said, inviting real responsibility, not to wait for the history to participate in the international community.
Hunger and malnutrition
In the special statement of OCHA, she warned about a “strong decline” in the availability of food throughout the gauze, because the speed of malnutrition escalates, especially among children.
The UN Partner Organization has recently presented about 1,300 children in northern Gaza and identified over 80 cases of acute malnutrition, which is more than twice as recorded in previous weeks.
“Nutrition partners report critical lack of stock due to obstruction of help and challenges in the transport of essential materials within Gaza,” said Ocha. Access to key content, including UNICEFThe main warehouse in Rafah remains great restricted.
Journalists visited by the United Nations Assistance Agency for Palestine Refugees (Unrwa) The main warehouses of the week are largely empty from the stock of food, including flour.
Call for responsibility and action
“Nothing can justify the collective punishment of Palestinian people,” said UNRWA in a separate statement, emphasizing that the international law prohibits indiscriminate attacks, the obstruction of humanitarian aid and destruction of vital civil infrastructure.
The Agency repeated its invitation for renewed truce, dignified release of all hostages and immediate, uninterrupted flow of humanitarian aid and commercial goods in Gaza.
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