Gaza is ‘hell on earth’ with doctors fainting from hunger, UN says, with snipers operating as if with ‘licence to kill’
Gaza is 'hell on earth' with doctors fainting from hunger, UN warns, as 1,000 estimated to have been killed seeking food
The head of the UN Palestinian Refugee Agency said on Tuesday that its staff members as well as doctors and humanitarian workers are fainting on duty due to hunger and exhaustion, Reuters reports.
Unrwa commissioner general Philippe Lazzarini said in a statement, shared by his spokesperson at a press briefing in Geneva:
Caretakers, including UNRWA colleagues in Gaza, are also in need of care now, doctors, nurses, journalists, humanitarians, among them, UNRWA staff are hungry. Many are now fainting due to hunger and exhaustion while performing their duties.
Lazzarini described the situation in Gaza as “hell on earth”, adding that nowhere was safe.
The Unrwa estimates that 1,000 starving people have been reported killed while seeking food aid since the end of May.
After talks to extend a six-week ceasefire broke down, Israel imposed a full blockade on Gaza on 2 March, allowing nothing in until trucks were again permitted at a trickle in late May.
In a post on X on Monday, Unrwa said that shortages in the Palestinian territory had caused food prices to increase by 40 times, while the aid stockpiled in its warehouses outside Gaza could feed “the entire population for over three months.”
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