More than 100 humanitarian groups warn of mass hunger in gas

More than 100 international help organizations and human rights groups warn of mass fasting in gas and insist on governments to take action.

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), save children and Oxfam are among the signed joint statement that says their colleagues and the people they serve “lose”.

Israel, who controls the entry of all supplies into the territory, rejected the statement of organizations and accused them of “Hamas Propaganda Service”.

Their warning came when Gaza Hamas Health Ministry said that another 10 Palestinians had died as a result of malnutrition in the last 24 hours.

This brings the number of such deaths in Gaza from Sunday to 43, according to the ministry.

The UN reported that hospitals had received people in a state of severe exhaustion caused by a lack of food and that others collapse on the streets.

“As the siege of the Israeli government is starving Gaza people, aid workers are already joining the same food lines, risking being shot only to feed their families” 109 humanitarian organizations said in a statement published on WednesdayS

“With supplies that are already completely exhausted, humanitarian organizations witness their own colleagues and partners lose their eyes.”

Israel imposed a common blockade of supplies for Gaza in Gaza in early March and resumed his military offensive against Hamas two weeks later, collapsing with the end of the fire to two months. It says he wants to put pressure on the armed group to release his other Israeli hostages.

Although the blockade was partially relieved after almost two months, against the backdrop of warnings about starving by global experts, food shortages, medicine and fuel deteriorated.

“Doctors report record rates of acute malnutrition, especially among children and the elderly. Diseases such as acute watery diarrhea are spread, markets are empty, waste is accumulating, and adults collapse on the streets of starvation and dehydration,” humanitarian organizations warned.

“A help worker providing psychosocial support speaks of the devastating impact on the children:” The children tell their parents that they want to go to heaven because at least the sky has food. “

World Health Organization (WHO) He said his estimates show that a quarter of the population is facing hunger-like conditions and that almost 100,000 women and children suffer from severe acute malnutrition and need treatment as soon as possible.

Its director Tedros Adhanom Gebreyes said on Wednesday: “As you know, the mass fasting means hunger of a large part of the population and a large part of the Gaza’s population is starving.

“I do not know how you would call it, except mass starvation, and this is created by man.

“And that’s very clear, it’s because of the blockade.”

Dr. Ahmad al-Farah, head of Paediatrics at Nasser Hospital in the southern town of Khan Einnis, told the BBC that no food had been available for three days.

He said the children came to his unit, going through a different degree of hunger.

Some were malnourished and died in the care of the hospital, he added. Others came with separate health problems that prevented the nutrients from being absorbed by their bodies.

“We were afraid we would get to this critical point – and now we have,” he said.

The shortage of the main deliveries made prices in local markets jump and leave most families who could not afford to buy something.

“This is outrageous – prices are lit,” said a Gaza resident. “Every day we need 300 shekels ($ 90; £ 66.50) for flour only.”

Humanitarian organizations also noted that the UN said it had recorded the murder of Israeli military to more than 1,050 Palestinians trying to receive food from May 27, the day after the controversial aid managed by the humanitarian foundation (the US.

According to the UN Human Rights Service, 766 people were killed near the four GHF assistance sites located in the military zones of Israeli military zones and are managed by private US security contractors. Another 288 people were killed near the UN convoys and other auxiliary convoys.

The Israeli military claims that his troops, located near GHF’s seats, only fired warning shots and that they did not fire intentionally civilians. GHF says the UN uses “fake and misleading” figures from the Gaza Health Ministry.

Humanitarian organizations have also said that almost the entire Gaza population has been displaced and is now limited to less than 12% of the territory not covered by Israeli evacuation orders or in Israeli militarized areas, which makes operations for assistance.

And they said that only 28 truck loads were distributed in Gaza in Gaza every day.

“Just outside the gas, in warehouses – and even within the gas itself – tons of food, clean water, medical supplies, shelter and fuel objects sit untouched by humanitarian organizations, blocked by access or delivery.”

The UN says Israel as an occupation power has an obligation under international law to ensure that humanitarian aid reaches the entire population in need.

Israel insists that it acts in accordance with international law and facilitates the entry of assistance, while ensuring that it does not reach Hamas.

Recently, he acknowledged that there was a significant decline in deliveries reaching the Palestinians, but blames UN agencies.

The Israeli military body COGAT, which coordinates the entry of Gaza’s aid, wrote on X on Monday that almost 4500 truck loads have entered Gaza in the last two months, including 2500 tonnes of baby food and high -calorie special food for children.

He also published footage of drones showing what some of the 950 truck loads waiting to be collected by the UN and other international organizations by Gazan at the intersection of Kerem Shalom and Zikim.

“The Bottleneck of the collection remains the main obstacle to maintaining a steady flow of humanitarian aid in the Gaza Strip,” said when.

The UN has repeatedly said that it is struggling to obtain the necessary Israeli permission to collect incoming supplies with Gazan drivers from internal points and transport it through military zones.

Continuing hostilities, poorly damaged roads and severe fuel shortage exacerbate problems. Criminal robbery of armed bands also sometimes stops operations.

The UN said the main problem in recent weeks is that it has been struggling to engage in the Israeli military, that desperate Palestinians will not be killed while trying to collect help from their convoys.

UN spokesman Stefan Duzaric said at a briefing on Tuesday: “In too many cases, when UN teams are allowed by Israel to collect closed joints near Gaza’s crossings, civilians approaching these trucks fall under fire, despite the repeated assurances that the troops will not be committed.”

“This unacceptable model is the opposite of how it should look easier for humanitarian operations. Absolutely no one should risk their life to get food.”

Humanitarian organizations said it was time to “take decisive action”.

“Require instant and constant termination of the fire; raise all bureaucratic and administrative restrictions; open all land crossings; provide access to all throughout the gas; reject models for distribution of military control; restore the principled, not guided humanitarian reaction and continue to finance principle.”

“States must continue specific measures to terminate the siege, such as stopping the transfer of weapons and ammunition,” they added.

The Israeli Foreign Ministry said it categorically rejected the statement, accusing organizations of “using Hamas’s speaking points”.

“These organizations serve Hamas’s propaganda using their number and justify their horrors,” she added.

“Instead of challenging the terrorist organization, they accept it as their own.”

The ministry also claims that they “harm the chances” for a new deal to end the fire and hostage, which Israel and Hamas negotiate for indirect negotiations in Qatar.

The Israeli military launched a campaign in Gaza in response to an attack led by Hamas against southern Israel on October 7, 2023, which killed about 1,200 people and 251 others were hostage.

At least 59 219 people have been killed in Gaza ever since, according to the health ministry in the territory.