“” Doctors, nurses, journalists, humanitarian workers, including UNRWA The staff, hungry…Vanish due to hunger and exhaustion while exercising their tasks “,” said Juliette Touma, director of communications with the United Nations Agency for Refugees in Palestine, UNRWA.

Speaking of Amman, she pointed out that the search for food “has become as deadly as the bombing”.

Development intervenes as a United Nations Human Rights Office, Ohchrannounced Tuesday that more than 1,000 Palestinians were now killed by the Israeli army while he was trying to make food in Gaza since the so-called Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) began to operate on May 27.

“As of July 21, we recorded 1,054 people killed in Gaza while trying to get food,” said spokesperson for the Ohchr Thameen al-Kheetan; “766 of them were killed in the vicinity of the GHF sites and 288 near the UN and other convoys of help from humanitarian organizations.”

Mr. Al-Kheetan noted that the conclusion came from “multiple reliable sources in the field, including medical teams, humanitarian organizations and human rights. It is still in the process of verifying our strict methodology. ”

The huts of the foundation are supported by the United States and the Israeli authorities and began to operate in southern Gaza on May 27, bypassing the UN and the other established NGOs.

Help relief is not a job for mercenaries

“The so-called GHF distribution program is a sadistic death screed,” said Touma of UNRWA. “The elite shooters open fire at random on the crowds, as if they were given a license to kill. »»

Quoting a declaration by UNRWA Head Philippe Lazzarini, Ms. Touma described the “massive hunting of people in total impunity” program.

“This cannot be our new standard. Humanitarian aid is not the work of mercenaries “,” She added.

UNRWA’s spokesman insisted that the UN and its humanitarian partners have the expertise, experience and resources available to provide safe, dignified and scale assistance.

“We have proven it repeatedly during the last cease-fire,” she said.

Living conditions in the band have reached a new level because the prices of basic products have increased by around 4,000%. For the inhabitants of Gaza who have lost their house and have been moved several times, they have no income and find themselves completely deprived of essentials.

$ 200 for a bag of flour

Ms. Touma underlined the testimony of a colleague on the field who had to walk for hours to buy a bag of lenses and flour, paying nearly $ 200 for that.

The United Nations World Food Program on Monday (Wfp) said a quarter of the Gaza population faces famine type conditions. Nearly 100,000 women and children suffer from acute serious malnutrition and need treatment as soon as possible.

Vital everyday items such as layers are rare and expensive, at around $ 3 each. Mothers resorted to the use of plastic bags instead, while a father “said he had to cut one of his last shirts to give his daughter sanitary pads,” said Touma.

“We, at UNRWA, have stocks of hygiene supplies, including layers for babies and for adults waiting outside the doors of Gaza,” said Touma, insisting that the agency has 6000 trucks loaded with food, drugs and hygiene supplies pending in Egypt and Jordan to be authorized to enter the Enclave.

Urgent ceasefire call

She reiterated UN calls to “an agreement that would bring a cease-fire, which would release hostages, which would cause a standard flow of humanitarian supplies to Gaza under the leadership of the United Nations, including UNRWA.”

Humanitarian operations in the enclave are pushed into a “constantly disputed space”, said the World Health Organization (WHO) Tarik Jašarević spokesperson.

The information journalists in Geneva sentenced three attacks on Monday in a building in the building which of the staff of Deir al-Balah, in the center of Gaza, as well as the “ill-treatment of those who are housed there and the destruction of his main warehouse”.

“The staff and their families, including the children, were exposed to a serious danger and traumatized after air strikes caused a fire and significant damage,” said Mr. Jašarević, adding that the Israeli soldiers entered the premises, “forcing women and children to evacuate” to the coastal shelter of Al Mawasi.

Detected under the threat of a weapon

The WHO spokesman said that the staff and family members were “bound, stripped, interviewed on the spot and projected under the threat of a weapon”. Two staff members and two family members were detained and while three were released later, a WHO staff member remains in detention for unknown reasons for the organization.

Jašarević called for the release of the detainee staff member and insisted that “no one should be held without accusations and without regular procedures”.

The last evacuation order for the region had an impact on several premises and compromised its presence on the ground, “paralyzing efforts to support a collapsed health system,” added Mr. Jašarević and “repel the more out of reach of more than two million people”.

On Monday, the Israeli military operation in Deir Al-Balah also caused an explosion and fire inside the warehouse of which is the principal, which is located in the evacuation zone of the central city of Gazan-“part of a systematic destruction model of health facilities,” said the agency spokesperson.

According to the Gaza health authorities, since the start of the war in October 2023, 1,500 health workers have been killed in the strip. Some 94% of all health establishments have been damaged and half of Gaza hospitals are “not at all functional,” said Jašarević.

“The possibility of preventing loss of lives and reversing immense damage to the health system is more out of reach every day,” he said.

Visa refusal

By highlighting other challenges in the humanitarian operation in Gaza, the WHO spokesman underlined an increase in the refusal of visas by the Israeli authorities for emergency medical teams seeking to enter the band since the last ceasefire between Israel and Hamas on March 18.

He said 58 international employees for emergency medical teams, including critical surgeons and doctors have been denied access.

Ms. Touma de l’UNRWA underlined the fact that since the agency’s general commissioner was denied the entrance to Gaza in March 2024, he was not authorized to return to the strip. He also did not receive a visa from Israel to enter the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, for more than a year.

UNRWA spokesperson also deplored the lack of access to international media at the enclave.

“It is certainly time, if not a long time, for international media to go precisely to Gaza to examine the facts and help report first-hand information on the horrors that the inhabitants of Gaza live,” she said.

Ross Smith, director of preparation and response to emergency, Ross, informed journalists in New York following a fatal incident on Sunday during which dozens of civilians were killed and injured while waiting to access food as Wfp Conveyed entered the north of Gaza.

“Yesterday’s incident is one of the largest tragedies we have seen for our operations in Gaza and elsewhere while we are trying to work,” he said, speaking of Rome.

“And it’s completely preventable, and it’s an absolute tragedy,” he added.

Famine and malnutrition conditions

The Gaza population amounts to around 2.1 million and earlier this year, food security experts warned that one in five people faced famine.

Smith said that WFP assessments show that a quarter of the population is facing famine conditions. Nearly 100,000 women and children suffer from acute serious malnutrition and need treatment as soon as possible.

Stressing reports, he said that “people are dying for lack of humanitarian aid every day, and we see it degenerating day by day.”

He stressed that food aid and humanitarian aid more widely, are “the only solution for the moment” for Gaza.

Minimum operating conditions

Smith said that humanitarian workers have a set of minimum operating conditions that must be in place so that they can work effectively.

These include points in Gaza, “appropriate routing” inside the enclave so that the teams can move independently and the entrance to more than 100 aid trucks per day.

“We must also have armed players near the food distribution points, near our convoys and close to the movement of these convoys from one place to another,” he continued, while stressing the need to reach people where they are and not in otherwise predetermined places.

“And I would especially say that we have had agreements in principle on these things, but we did not have any membership of them in practice in Gaza herself. And this is really where the rupture is, and this is where we see incidents as (yesterday) take place, “he said.

Ceasefire now

Mr. Smith also underlined the critical need for a ceasefire “so that we can move effectively”.

In response to the question of a journalist, he said that WFP had moved more than 200 assistance trucks per day in Gaza during the ceasefire earlier this year. Since mid-May, he has been able to move less than 10% of what is necessary.

He said that the United Nations agency has sufficiently pre-positioned stocks outside Gaza to provide the whole population for two months “if we can get a ceasefire and if we can move. »»

These strikes occurred while the United Nations mission to support the Hudaydah agreement -Created in 2018 to support the ceasefire between the government of Yemen and the Houthis-patrolled in places in the northern parts of the port.

The secretary general also expressed a deep concern about missiles and drones of drones led by Houthis against Israel.

Risk of new escalation

Concerned about the risk of a new escalation, the UN recalled that international law, as well as international humanitarian law, should be respected by all parties at any time, including the obligations to respect and protect civil infrastructure.

“The secretary general remains deeply concerned about the risk of a new escalation in the region,” said Dujarric.

While the UN chief reiterated his call for “all the persons involved in ceasing all military actions and to exercise maximum reservoir”, he also renewed his appeal to the immediate and unconditional liberation of all the United Nations and other members of the staff arbitrarily detained by the Houthi authorities.

Sudan: the crisis is getting worse while cholera and floods must be higher

The humanitarian crisis in Sudan continues to deepen as cholera spreads, flooding moves communities and thousands of people return to areas without support, according to the United Nations Bureau for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (Ochha).

In the locality of Tawiola, in the state of Darfur du Nord, more than 1,300 confirmed cases of cholera in just a week were reported on Sunday by an association of Sudanese doctors.

Although local and international partners have set up cholera treatment centers, the current capacity is far from sufficient to deal with the increasing workload.

While Tawila welcomes several hundred thousand displaced people, the partners in the field have trouble keeping the pace of increasing needs, especially as such needs should increase as the next rainy season sets up.

Vulnerable return

Everywhere in Sudan, people who return to their communities are faced with serious challenges, including the lack of essential services and the threat posed by the explosive remains of the war.

In the state of the white Nile, some residents began to come back after being moved for a year. However, an evaluation of the OCHA and its partners last week revealed that health, water, sanitation and hygiene support are urgently necessary, even more before the rainy season.

Likewise, in East Sudan, OCHA warns that many families returning to the state of Kassala have trouble facing the impact of heavy rains and floods, while heavy rains destroyed more than 280 houses in the village of Tirik earlier in July.

In addition, while insecurity continues to interfere with the work of humanitarian workers, the challenges faced by repatriated families often lead them to return to travel sites, undergoing the sustainability of return efforts.

In this context, the OCHA called for increased international support to meet the arrow needs of Sudan.

Ukraine: at least 20 civilians would have been killed in recent attacks

In Ukraine, attacks during the weekend and Monday would have killed more than 20 civilians and injured more than 100 other people, including several children, according to the authorities.

The strikes affected the capital kyiv, as well as the western and first -line regions, harmful houses, schools and a health facility.

In Kyiv, a kindergarten, metro stations, stores and residential buildings was affected.

The Ivano-Frakivsk region in western Ukraine, which welcomed many displaced people and had been less affected by hostilities, suffered the greatest attack since the Russian invasion on a large scale in February 2022.

First line regions

Meanwhile, in areas close to the fronts of the Donetsk, Dnipro and Kherson regions, hostilities have caused civilian victims and other damage to schools, a health facility and apartments. Odesa, Kharkiv, Sumy and other regions also said that houses and stores had been destroyed.

With the support of the United Nations agencies and coordination with local authorities and first respondents, humanitarian organizations in the field continue to provide shelter equipment, non -food articles, legal aid, psychosocial support and assistance to children across the country.