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The Israel-Hamas conflict deepens the humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip

2023-11-11 10:31:45Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
The Israel-Hamas conflict deepens the humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip
Patients at Shifa hospital in Gaza City, November 10, 2023. AFP photo

UN agencies say the humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip is deepening as the civilian death toll continues to rise, the killing of United Nations humanitarian workers has reached unprecedented levels, entire neighborhoods have been flattened by relentless bombing and millions of people are unable to get enough food, water and medicine. "If there is a hell on Earth today, its name is northern Gaza. The people who remain there face the risk of death, despair, displacement and darkness," said Jens Laerke, spokesman for the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.

"The entire Gaza Strip has been plunged into darkness since October 11, when the electricity grid was cut off and fuel was cut off," he said on Friday. Israeli forces imposed a total blockade on the Gaza Strip after Hamas fighters carried out an attack in southern Israel on October 7, killing at least 1,400 people. Hamas also took around 240 hostages during the attack and continues to launch rocket attacks on Israel. While Israel partially lifted the siege of Gaza on October 21, it continues to block the entry of fuel, arguing that Hamas would use it for military purposes.

The United States announced that Israel has agreed to a four-hour daily humanitarian pause in fighting to allow civilians to leave northern Gaza and allow aid trucks to enter Palestinian civilians. Mr. Laerke said that it will be impossible to send sufficient aid to the Gaza Strip within four hours through the Rafah border crossing, which, according to him, was "built for the passage of pedestrians, not trucks." "The crossing in Kerem Shalom was built for the passage of trucks. We have called on the authorities in Israel to reopen this crossing and use it to send aid," he said.

He noted on Thursday that 65 trucks carrying food, medicine and other aid crossed from Egypt to the Gaza Strip through the Rafah crossing, bringing to 821 the number of humanitarian aid trucks that have entered the Gaza Strip since October 21. He said that before October 7, about 500 aid trucks entered the Gaza Strip every working day. Now, he says, “it is difficult for aid workers and aid trucks to enter Gaza. And secondly, southern Gaza is not safe."

The World Health Organization agrees with this assessment. She says that 20 of the 36 hospitals in the Gaza Strip are no longer functioning, and that the 16 that are still operating are providing only the bare minimum of services. "Hospitals do not have adequate supplies of medicines and are overcrowded," says WHO spokeswoman Margaret Harris. "We are ready to send emergency medical teams to the Gaza Strip to support the health system, but there is no safe access. There is no safety anywhere," she said. "Look at the large number of colleagues of the UN Humanitarian Agency for Palestine Refugees who have been killed." The UN humanitarian agency for Palestine refugees says more than 100 of its staff have been killed in the Gaza Strip.

"This is unprecedented. The number of personnel killed in such a short period of time is unprecedented in the history of the UN," said Rolando Gomez, spokesman for the UN office in Geneva. The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, said the deaths of staff members of the UN Humanitarian Agency for Palestine Refugees are "outrageous and very serious". Mr Türk spoke on Friday about the situation in Israel and the Palestinian territories at a press conference in Amman, at the end of his mission to Egypt and Jordan.

"It is clear that lasting peace and security cannot be achieved through anger, inflicting pain on people who have no responsibility for the crimes that have been committed," he said. "Hamas' brutal attacks against Israel on October 7 should outrage each and every one of us. There must be justice, accountability and redress for the victims of these heinous crimes. The hostages must be returned home and the indiscriminate firing of rockets at Israel must be stopped," he added. But Mr. Türk also said that the Israeli army's large-scale bombing of the Gaza Strip, in densely populated areas, which is having "devastating humanitarian consequences and human rights violations" must stop immediately and Israel must put an end to the use of such methods and tools of war.

He said attacks on and near hospitals in Gaza City have been intense, noting that international humanitarian law clearly states that medical facilities must be protected and respected at all times. "Palestinian armed groups' use of civilians and civilian facilities to protect themselves from attacks is contrary to the laws of war," he said. "But such behavior by Palestinian armed groups does not absolve Israel of its obligation not to harm civilians," he said, adding, "it is absolutely clear that international law says that civilians, wherever they are, must are protected"./VOA


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