The United Nations have affair A strong condemnation of the continuous blockade of humanitarian aid from Israel to the Gaza Strip, which describes the measure as “cruel collective punishment.”
In a statement on Thursday, May 1, the UN emergency relief coordinator, Tom Fletcher, saying Israel’s decision to block all the aid in Gaza, which now enters its third month, is depriving the Palestinians or basic neialings, including food, medical care and refuge.
“They have an abruptly honest leg that this policy is pressurizing Hamas,” Fletcher saying. “But help, and the civil life that saves, should never be a negotiation chip … block the aid kills.”
He added that the last mechanism proposed By Israel “it does not meet the minimum bar for the humanitarian support of principles” and urged the Israeli authorities to lift the blockade immediately.
The call occurs when the Gaza health system is on the verge of collapse, with surpassed hospitals, cut critical supplies and diseases such as acute aqueous diannel increasing due to the deterioration of hygiene conditions.
The World Health Organization information According to reports, severe scarcity in essential medicines, fuel and medical equipment, and Israel denied eight out of nine UN attempts to recover fuel since mid -April.
The situation on the field continues arrest. Only in the last week of April, 437 people were delicate and more than 1,000 injured in the midst of intensified bombings of earth, sea and air.
Humanitarian partners estimate that more than 423000 people have been displaced in the last week, without a safe refuge to resort to. The strikes have directed more and more residential areas and even tents that live in the family, partly in the city of Rafah and Gaza.
The UN Human Rights Office record At least 99 of this type in the tents of the displaced people internally since mid -March, many of which were fatal.
“These attacks raise serious concerns about the violations of international law,” said UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk, warning That deliberately pointing to civilians could be equivalent to war crimes.
On Friday, May 2, a ship From the Freedom Flotilla coalition, a base group of international activists who oppose the blockade of Gaza, was beaten by drones out of malt. The group, which included Greta Thunberg, blamed Israel for the attack.
In the West Bank, conditions stay TERRIBLE. Israeli military operations in the North have displaced about 40,000 Palestinians since January, many of which are still unable to return home.
Accordance For the Ministry of Health of Gaza, at least 52,400 Palestinians have been killed and more than 118,000 injured since the beginning of Israel’s military offensive in October 2023.
