Gaza has reached new levels of despair; Because of the longest unprecedented comprehensive military siege, Israel has been implemented for eight weeks, which cut all aid from the Strip.
The British Guardian newspaper said that the siege left Gaza facing unprecedented circumstances in distress since the beginning of the war, as the Palestinians suffer from comprehensive new evacuation orders, and the bombing of civil infrastructure is renewed such as hospitals, food and fuel for generators and medical supplies.
Many civilians, paramedics, and humanitarian workers said they fear starvation than air strikes.
Hikmat Al -Masry, a university lecturer, 44, from Beit Lahia, in the northern Gaza Strip, said: Hunger is the one who will kill me- a slow death. ”
Food stocks were carried out within two months of the ceasefire, and desperate people accumulate throughout the region in front of the kitchens of charities with their potentials and empty awareness.
Goods are now sold at the market at 1400%higher prices, according to the latest evaluation from the World Health Organization.
It is estimated that 420,000 people were forced to displace again due to new evacuation orders, which makes it difficult to collect decisive data on hunger and malnutrition, but Oxfam estimates that most children now live on less than one meal per day.
About 95% of relief organizations have stopped their services, or their reduction due to air strikes and the siege, and since February, Tel Aviv has stressed the restrictions on international employees entering Gaza. The basic medical supplies, even pain relievers, are running away.
“Gaza City is crowded with the displaced people who fled the occupation forces moving to the north, as they live in the street, or put their tents inside the damaged buildings that are about to collapse,” said Amand Bazirol, the emergency coordinator in Gaza to MSF, in her speech from Deir Al -Balah.
“There are not enough care points for this large number of patients,” Bazirol added. In our clinic for burns in Gaza City, we refuse to receive patients by ten in the morning, and we have to inform them of the next day, as we sort to medicines to ensure our stock continues for as long as possible.
The siege was accompanied by a violent attack by Israel on the north of Gaza, as well as the entire city of Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, which resulted in cutting off the region from Egypt.
According to the United Nations, about 70% of the Gaza Strip is now subject to evacuation orders, or have been annexed to expanded military buffer areas; The area of the new security area is five area of the entire sector.
The seizures of the lands of the 2.3 million sector – and medical aid and efforts – are pushing smaller “humanitarian” areas identified by Tel Aviv.
With the shrinking area in which they can work, relief workers said they are concerned that the rules of engagement followed by the occupation army have changed since the ceasefire collapsed, referring to the recent bombing of Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis, who hit a building where members of an international medical team were present.
A senior relief official said: “People in Gaza love the presence of international employees,” said a senior relief official. Because they assume that this provides them with more protection. ”
He added: “At the beginning of the war, if there was an air strike two kilometers from our site, we would have greeted the place … in the end, this distance has become 300 meters, and now it is 30 meters.”
Adding that there are no warnings, or sometimes twenty minutes, insufficient to evacuate patients.
The relief official said: “Our exposure to danger is increasing … We know that the Israelis are trying to force us to work on their conditions.”
Meanwhile, the humanitarian crisis will worsen, according to relief agencies. While Al -Masry, the lecturer from Beit Lahia, said: “With the return of the siege and the renewed war, I was terrified.
I always think of my little son, and how I can provide his basic needs .. No one can imagine the size of the suffering .. Death surrounds us from every side. ”
