The Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees said:UNRWA) Philippe Lazzarini, during a press conference in Geneva, on the sidelines of the United Nations Global Refugee Forum, said, “Wherever we go, people are desperate, hungry and terrified.”
He added, “We are on the verge of a possible collapse” in the Gaza Strip, “because the civil order is increasingly collapsing” due to the war.
And I allowed Israel Establishing an additional checkpoint for humanitarian aid at the Kerem Shalom crossing before it enters the Gaza Strip from Egypt through the Rafah crossing.
This step aims to increase the quantities of materials entering the sector, while the United Nations considers it completely insufficient.
And crossing Rafah It is the only one open to humanitarian aid heading to the Gaza Strip, where residents suffer from catastrophic living conditions.
“As long as humanitarian aid remains insignificant compared to the magnitude of the needs, as long as this tension continues, and as long as the situation becomes more impossible,” Lazzarini said.
He recounted another time that he saw residents of the Gaza Strip stealing food from trucks transporting humanitarian aid inside the Strip, and immediately eating it in the streets.
He said in response to a question, “I have not heard of any of our trucks, belonging to the United Nations or UNRWA, being violently seized by Hamas.”
The French Press Agency quoted Lazzarini He said, “With this increasing desperation, our operating environment becomes more difficult. At this stage, and in the absence of a ceasefire, the only way to address the matter (…) is to provide assistance on a large scale.”
He stressed that “hunger is something that the residents of the Gaza Strip have not witnessed before, but it has appeared in recent weeks.”
Lazzarini pointed out that V Gaza strip“People feel that the international community has abandoned them,” and stressed that he was “shocked” by “the lack of compassion and humanity (…) when in reality what is happening angers anyone.”
