A spokesman for the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said yesterday that “Gaza is the most hungry place in the world”, as “100% of the population are at risk of starvation.” “It is the only specified region, the country or the only specific sector within a country, where the whole population is at risk of starvation,” Yenos Lark said at a periodic press conference in Geneva. 100% of the population is at risk of starvation.
He pointed out that Israel allowed the entry of 900 trucks loaded with humanitarian aid since the siege was partially lifted, but so far only 600 trucks have entered the discharge area in Gaza, but the load of only a number of them was transferred into the Strip, and this is mainly to security considerations.
He considered that this limited number of trucks “is just a drop in the environment”, saying that the task of distributing aid has faced “operational restrictions that made it one of the most disturbing aids not only in today’s world, but in modern history.”
The Gaza Strip suffers a serious humanitarian situation amid a hunger crisis, despite the start of the entry of a few days ago, after an Israeli siege applied more than two months ago. The death toll of genocide, and the aggression that the Israeli army forces on the Gaza Strip increased to 54,321 martyrs, and 123,770 injured, since October 7, 2023. Medical sources reported that among the toll 4,058 martyrs, 11,729 injuries since last March 18, that is, since Israel resumed its aggression against the Strip after the ceasefire agreement. The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) announced that more than 50,000 Palestinian children have been martyred or injured since October 2023 at the rate of one child every 20 minutes.
And “UNICEF” said that since the end of the ceasefire on March 18, 1309 children were killed and 3738 others were wounded, indicating that “in general, more than 50,000 children have been killed or injured since October 2023”. She stressed that “the children of Gaza need protection, and in need of food, water and medicine, and that they need to stop the shooting, but the most important of everything, they need an immediate collective work to stop this matter permanently.”
