Development has followed information that the Israeli army has intensified its offensive on the ground in Gaza City, ordering residents to leave the region.
Speaking of the south of the enclave, UnicefTess Ingram has described the forced mass movement of families as a “deadly threat to the most vulnerable”.
“” It is inhuman to expect almost half a million children to beat and traumatized by more than 700 days of relentless conflict to flee a landscape of hell to find themselves in another“, She insisted.
150,000 go south in a month
According to the UN Humanitarian Affairs Coordination Office, OchhaIn recent days, partners monitoring the people movement in Gaza have counted nearly 70,000 trips to the south and around 150,000 in the month. The only available route, Al Rashid Road, was “very busy” when Ms. Ingram was there on Monday, she said.
Unicef spokesperson described that he had met a mother who had walked for more than six hours of Gaza City in the south with her five children, “all dirty, thirsty and hungry”, including two without shoes.
They are pushed with tens of thousands of others to “a so-called humanitarian area” encompassing Al-Mawasi and the surrounding regions, she said.
Sea of despair
Ms. Ingram described their destination as “a sea of fortune tents, human despair” and services that are “insufficient” to support the hundreds of thousands that already live there.
The malnutrition of children in Gaza “in a spiral”Ingram continued, stressing that, according to UNICEF estimates, some 26,000 children in the enclave currently require treatment for acute malnutrition – more than 10,000 in Gaza City.
Famine was confirmed at the end of last month in Gaza City by supported food insecurity experts.
Closed food centers
UNICEF Ingram said that due to the evacuation and military climbing orders more nutrition centers in Gaza City have been forced to close this week, “cutting children from a third of the remaining treatment sites that can save their lives”.
While the humanitarian workers remain on the spot and continue to respond to the crisis, “it becomes more difficult with each bombardment and each denial,” she said.
According to OCHA, last Sunday on 17 missions according to which the humanitarian teams coordinated with the Israeli authorities, only four were facilitated, while seven missions were refused and others were hampered on the ground or had to be canceled.
Ms. Ingram spoke of the dilemma of the desperate gasans with which the Gazans are confronted: “Stay in danger or run away to a place that they also know dangerous.” She recalled that Al-mawasi had been attacked about two weeks ago, when eight children were killed while they were queuing for water; The youngest victim was three years old.
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Originally published at Almouwatin.com
