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BBCOne in five children in Gaza City are malnourished and the cases are increasing every day, the United Nations Palestinian refugee agency (UNRWA) says.
In a statement released on Thursday, the UNRWA Commissioner-General Philip Lazeri, citing a colleague, said: “People are neither dead nor alive in Gaza, they are running on corpses.”
More than 100 international aid organizations and human rights groups have also warned of large -scale starvation – pressure on governments to take action.
Israel, which controls the entry of all supplies into Gaza, states that there is no siege and does not blame Hamas for any case of malnutrition.
However, the United Nations has warned that the level of assistance in Gaza is “a trick” and the hunger crisis in the region has never been so strict “.
In her statement on Thursday, Lazarini said “more than 100 people, most of them, have allegedly died of hunger”.
He said, “Most of our children are watching our teams, if they do not receive the treatment that they do not get immediate treatment, then at the high risk of dying,” he said, “he allows humanist partners to bring unrestricted and uninterrupted humanitarian aid to Gaza”.
On Wednesday, the World Health Organization (WHO) stated that a major proportion of Gaza’s population was “hungry”.
“I don’t know what you would call it apart from collective starvation – and it is man -made,” said Tedros Adnom Ghebrases, the head of Hu.
Tahani martyrIn Northern Gaza, 40 -year -old Hana Almadhun said that local markets are often without food and other supply.
“If they are present then they come at high prices that no normal person can tolerate,” he told the BBC on WhatsApp.
He said that the dough was expensive and difficult to secure, and people have sold “gold and personal belongings” to bear it.
Three-Sas said “Every new day brings a new challenge” because people find “something food”.
“With my own eyes, I have seen the children rumored through garbage in search of food scrap,” he said.
During the visit of Israeli soldiers in Gaza on Wednesday, Israel President Isaac Herzog stressed that his country is providing humanitarian aid “according to international law”.
But in Gaza, a support worker Tahani Shehda said that people are “trying to survive for an hour-by-hour”.
“Simple things like cooking [and] Taking a shower has become a luxury, “he said.
“I have a child. He is eight months old. He doesn’t know how the taste of fresh fruit is,” he said.
Israel stopped the aid delivery to Gaza after a two -month ceasefire in early March. After about two months the blockade was partially reduced, but food, fuel and lack of medicine deteriorated.
Israel, with the US, established a new aid system run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF).
According to the United Nations Human Rights Office, more than 1,000 Palestinians have been killed by the Israeli army trying to get food assistance in the last two months.
It states that at least one of them is killed in the area around one of the four distribution centers of 766 GHF, operated by American private security contractors and is located inside the Israeli military areas.
Another 288 people have been killed near the United Nations and other aid convoys.
Israel has accused Hamas of provoking chaos near Hamas. It says that its soldiers have only taken out warning shots and they do not deliberately shoot citizens.
The GHF says that the United Nations is using “false” data from Gaza’s Hamas-Interested Health Ministry.
Najah, a 19 -year -old widow in a hospital in Gaza, Najah said that she is afraid that she would be “shot” if she travels to help the distribution site.
“I hope they bring us something to eat and drink. We die of hunger with nothing to eat or drink. We live in tents. We are finished,” Najah told the BBC.
A doctor working in Gaza with the Medical Charity of UK, Dr. Essel said that Gaza was not close to famine, but already “living it”.
“My husband went once [to an aid distribution point] And twice and then the bullet got shot and it was, “he said.
“If we die of hunger, let it be. The path of help is the way of death.”
Abu Ala, a market seller in Gaza, said that he and his children “go to a hungry bed every night”.
He said, “We are not alive. We are dead. We are requesting to intervene and save us from all over the world,” he said.
Vala Fathi, who is eight -month pregnant with her third child, said Ghazan is “experiencing a devastation and a famine that no one had imagined”.
“I hope my child lives in my womb and I do not need to give birth in these difficult circumstances,” he told Dir al-Balah to the BBC.
