Gaza (Union)
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) considered that the children of Gaza are paying a heavy price due to Israel imposing additional restrictions on the access of humanitarian aid to the Strip, noting that “without a ceasefire, we will have a lost generation.” This came while the World Food Program said that Continuing hostilities make it almost impossible to provide food aid.
Yesterday, UNRWA published a tweet on the “X” platform in which it indicated that “in 2023, more than 3,000 permits were denied or delayed for Palestinian children to leave the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, to receive medical treatment.”
She added: “Since the beginning of the war, the Israeli authorities have imposed additional restrictions on humanitarian access to the Gaza Strip, and children are once again paying a heavy price.”
Yesterday, medical sources in the Gaza Strip reported that a child died due to famine and drought, bringing the number of malnutrition victims in the Strip to 40 people.
In turn, UNRWA Commissioner Philippe Lazzarini said, in a post on the “X” platform, that “child survivors in Gaza are suffering from deep trauma, and the war has stolen their childhood from them.”
He pointed out that “many of Gaza’s children were killed or injured, and they will have scars for life.”
The UN official continued, saying: “Without a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, we will have a lost generation.”
Since last October 7, Israel has been waging a war on Gaza that has left more than 122,000 Palestinians dead and wounded, and more than 10,000 missing.
In another context, UNRWA rejected the allegations in Israeli ads targeting it on the Google search engine.
UNRWA spokesman Jonathan Fowler confirmed that the allegations of factions infiltrating the UN agency do not reflect the truth. “Sponsored links” containing the Israeli government’s allegations appear in the first search results for “UNRWA” on Google.
Fowler said: “We conducted repeated investigations and took corrective measures when allegations of violations of neutrality emerged, whether during the war in Gaza or before it,” pointing out that there is no evidence of the involvement of any of the agency’s employees in the October 7 attack on settlements adjacent to the Gaza Strip.
Meanwhile, the World Food Program said on Thursday that the continuation of hostilities in the Gaza Strip makes it almost impossible to provide food aid.
The Deputy Executive Director of the World Food Programme, Karl Skau, warned that the collapse of law and order in Gaza is causing an increase in looting and violence amid a large security vacuum.
After a two-day visit to Gaza, Skaw added: “Due to the security chaos within the Strip, which is now hampering the delivery of aid from the Kerem Shalom crossing, and the spread of the conflict in the southern and central areas of Gaza, WFP staff find it almost impossible to provide the level of aid.” Which meets the increasing demands in Gaza.”
The deputy executive director of the World Food Program said that the situation in southern Gaza is “rapidly deteriorating.” He added: “One million people have been expelled from Rafah and are trapped in a very crowded area along the coast in the scorching summer heat.”
He said: “We had increased the size of stocks before the operation in Rafah so that we could feed people, but the stocks began to run out, and we no longer have the same ability to reach the individuals we need, which we were accustomed to.”
“This is a displacement crisis that is truly a protection catastrophe,” Skaw added. “A million or so people expelled from Rafah are now crammed into a small space along the beach.”
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