The Commissioner General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA), Philippe Lazzarini, warned this Thursday that the population in the northern Gaza Strip was at risk “On the Brink of Famine” due to the scarce food reaching the area.
According to Lazzarini, UNRWA was last able to provide food to the population of the northern Gaza Strip on January 23, more than two weeks ago. In addition, since the beginning of the year, the organization’s requests for relief supplies have been “rejected.” “The United Nations has identified major hotspots of starvation and starvation in northern Gaza, where people are believed to be on the brink of famine, Europa Press reports.
“At least 300,000 people living in the region depend on our help to survive,” Lazzarini said on his X profile, formerly Twitter. In this context, the Commissioner General of UNRWA warned that the organization would also prevent access north of the Palestinian enclave prevent the population from receiving humanitarian aid that “saves lives”.
“With the necessary political will, this can easily be reversed,” he concluded. The Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) launched a series of attacks on Israeli territory in early October and left the country a figure of 1,200 dead and almost 240 hostages, and provoked a bloody military operation by the Israeli army, initially focused on the north of the Gaza Strip but later expanding to the south.
According to authorities in the Gaza Strip, which is controlled by the Palestinian militia, attacks by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have already claimed more than 27,800 lives, mostly women and children, and injured 67,300. Israel, in turn, claims to have killed 10,000 militants.
