When journalists update in Geneva, Dr. Margaret Harris described another night of terror in the enclave torn by the war.
She said that some of the injured in the attacks had asked for help from the Indonesian hospital in the north of Gaza, even if it was now “Just a shellAfter 19 months of war.
“We have done our best to bring it together and they do its best to treat everyone, but [medical teams] lack of everything you need“, She insisted.
Rejecting the accusations that the emergency supplies were given to Hamas, the WHO spokesman said that “in the health sector, we have not seen this. Everything we see is a desperate need at any time. ”
Echoing this message, the United Nations Coordination Office, OCHA, explained that a rigorous system of checks and relationships with donors meant that all emergency supplies were closely followed in real time, which makes the diversion highly improbable.
Even if it happened, “It is not on a scale that justifies the closure of an entire rescue help operation“Said the Ocha spokesperson Jens Laerke.
“”If you had been in a coma for three years and you woke up and you saw it for the first time, anyone having common sense would say that it is crazy.“”
Development has occurred more than 10 weeks since the Israeli authorities have stopped all foods, fuel, medicines and more to reach Gaza.
To date, their proposal for an alternative aid distribution platform bypassing existing United Nations agencies – widely criticized by the humanitarian community – has not been implemented.
The result was increased by malnutrition – unknown to Gaza before the war – and imminent famine, while thousands of trucks of essential supplies had to be stored in Jordan and Egypt, according to UNRWA, the United Nations Agency for Palestinian refugees and the largest assistant operation in Gaza.
In its latest update, OCHA said that the UN and its partners had 9,000 vital supplies trucks ready to move in Gaza. More than half contain food assistance that could provide months of food for 2.1 million people in the enclave.
An inventory of rescue supplies “waiting just outside the borders to enter” illustrates their humanitarian objective, said Mr. Laerke.
Pasta and stationary: weapons of war?
“It includes educational supplies, children’s bags, shoes, the size of three to four years and up to 10 years; Stationery and toys, rice, wheat flour and beans, eggs, pasta, various candies, tents, water tanks, cold storage boxes, breastfeeding kits, floor cleaner. I ask you, how many war can you wage with that?“”
Laerke said that UN officials had held 14 meetings with the Israeli authorities about their proposed aid program, which, if it was implemented, would limit aid “to a Gaza” and excluded the most vulnerable.
“”This makes famine a negotiation program“, He argued.
More than 53,000 people were killed in Gaza since the war broke out on October 7, 2023 in response to the terrorist attacks led by Hamas against Israel, according to health authorities.
Who said that only 255 patients needing specialized care outside the strip have been evacuated since March 18, leaving More than 10,000 patients – including around 4,500 children – who also need urgent care outside Gaza.
In response to this week’s attack on the European General Hospital of Khan Younis, who is Dr. Harris noted that she had been used as a meeting point for an evacuation. “This first bombardment, as you probably know, destroyed two of the buses we had gathered to take children,” she added.
On Tuesday, the Security Council heard the senior UN help, Tom Fletcher, calling on immediate international pressure to stop “the atrocity of the 21st century” of Gaza – a message amplified by Mr. Laerke d’Ocha:
“”The situation as it has developed now is so grotally abnormal as popular pressure on world leaders“He said.
“We know it happens, I am not saying that people are silent, because they are not. But it does not seem that their leaders listen to them.”
