Gaza on Brink of Humanitarian Catastrophe, Warns WHO
Ahmed Al-Mandhari, WHO’s Regional Director for the Eastern Mediterranean, declared that the battered and besieged region needed to be given access to assistance convoys that were stranded at the Rafah border crossing with Egypt.
If assistance does not arrive, doctors will have to “prepare death certificates for their patients”, he told the media.
Numerous Palestinians seeking refuge in UN buildings survive on less than 1 litre (1 quart) of water each day. With emergency generators that power equipment like ventilators and incubators down to approximately one day of fuel and drug supplies practically gone, hospitals warn that they are on the edge of collapsing.
Israeli warplanes keep bombarding the fully besieged Gaza Strip, reducing the territory to rubble.
Over 2,800 Palestinians, including more than 1,000 children, have been killed in relentless Israeli bombardment since October 7, when Hamas launched Operation Al-Aqsa Flood in response to continuing Israeli violation of the rights of Palestinians.
About 10,000 others have been wounded so far. Palestinian civil defense officials say over 1,000 people are missing under the rubble of buildings destroyed in airstrikes.
The occupiers have blocked the supply of water, electricity, fuel and medicines into the Palestinian territory.
Source: Agencies
