Updating journalists in Geneva, Dr. Margaret Harris described another night of horror in the enclave devastated by war.
She said that some of the wounded in the attacks had sought help from the Indonesian hospital in northern Gaza, although it was now “Just a shell“After 19 months of war.
“We have done everything possible to unite it and are doing everything possible to treat everyone, but [medical teams] Missing everything you need“She insisted.
Rejecting accusations that Hamas aid supplies have been delivered, the WHO spokesman said that “in the health sector, we have not seen that. Everything we see is a desperate need at all times.”
Echoing that message, the UN Coordination Office, Ocha, explained that a strict system of controls and reports to donors meant that all relief supplies were traced closely in real time, which makes the diversion very unlikely.
Even if it were happening, “It is not on a scale that justifies the closure of an aid operation to save lives“Said Ocha spokesman Jens Laerke.
“If you had been in a coma during the last three years and woke up and saw this for the first time, anyone with common sense would say this is crazy.“
Development occurs more than 10 weeks since Israeli authorities prevented all foods, fuel, medications and more from reaching Gaza.
To date, its proposal for an alternative aid distribution platform that avoids existing UN agencies, widely criticized by the humanitarian community, has not been implemented.
The result has increased malnutrition, unknown in Gaza before the war, and the imminent famine, while thousands of trucks loaded with essential supplies have had to be stored in Jordan and Egypt, according to Unrwa, the UN agency for Palestine refugees and the largest help operation in Gaza.
In his last update, Ocha said the UN and its partners have 9,000 vital supplies trucks ready to move to Gaza. More than half contain food assistance that could provide months of food for the 2.1 million people in the enclave.
An inventory of relief supplies “waiting for borders to enter” illustrates their humanitarian purpose, said Laerke.
Pasta and stationary: Weapons of war?
“It includes educational supplies, boys for children, shoes, size of three to four years and up to 10 years; stationery and toys, rice, wheat flour and beans, eggs, pasta, various sweets, campaign stores, water tanks, cold storage boxes, breastfeeding kits, breast milk substitutes, energy cookies, shampoo and manual shampoo, shampoo and manual shampoo, manual shampoo and manual soap. I ask you, how much war can you free with this?“
Mr. Laerke said that UN officials have held 14 meetings with Israeli authorities about their proposed aid scheme, which if it is implemented would restrict the aid “only part of Gaza” and excludes the most vulnerable.
“Makes hunger a negotiation chip“, Kept.
According to health authorities, more than 53,000 people have been killed in Gaza since the war broke out on October 7, 2023 in response to terrorist attacks led by Hamas against Israel.
Who said that only 255 patients who need specialized care outside the strip have been evacuated since March 18, leaving More than 10,000 patients, including approximately 4,500 children, who also need urgent medical care outside Gaza.
In response to this week’s attack on the European General Hospital in Khan Young, who Dr. Harris said it had been used as a meeting point for an evacuation. “That first bombing, as you probably know, destroyed two of the buses we had gathered to take the children,” he added.
On Tuesday, the Security Council listened to the UM high official, Tom Fletcher, requesting an immediate international pressure to stop the “atrocity of the 21st century” of Gaza, a message amplified by Mr. Laerke de Ocha:
“The situation as it has been developed now is so grotesquely abnormal that some popular pressure on leaders around the world should happen.“, Said.
“We know it’s happening, I don’t say people keep silent, because they are not. But it doesn’t seem that their leaders are listening to them.”
