Palestinians are starting to look like “Walking Corpses”, a United Nations official said on Thursday when Sir Keir Starmer called the hunger who unfolded in Gaza “ineffable and indefinable”.
Humanitarian employees on the territory see children who “emaciated, weak and a high risk of dying” without urgent treatment, said Philippe Lazzarini, head of the UNRWA Relief Agency.
The prime minister will hold an emergency call with France and Germany on Friday to stimulate help -and a cease -the fire. “We witness a humanitarian catastrophe,” he said. “The suffering and hunger who unfolds in Gaza is unspeakable and indefensible. Although the situation has been serious for some time, it has reached new depths and continues to deteriorate.”
Sir Keir's comments came only a few hours before the French President Emmanuel Macron announced that France will recognize the Palestinian state in the United Nations General Assembly in September.
The number of people who are staring out in Gaza has reportedly increased dramatically in recent days; Most of the 113 hunger -related deaths that have been registered there have taken place in recent weeks, and 82 of those who died were children, according to Palestinian health officials.
Israel has imposed severe restrictions on the amount of food and the help that is permitted to enter the territory, which limits the aid to a handful of trucks every day after a total blockage of 11 weeks earlier this year. UN officials say that the help in the strip is a drop in the ocean compared to what is needed.
“We all agree on the urgent need for Israel to change course and allow the help that is desperately needed to enter Gaza without delay,” said Sir Keir.
Yazan, a malnourished 2-year-old Palestinian boy, is in the damaged house of his family in the Al-Shathi refugee camp, west of Gaza City (AFP via Getty)
Mr Lazzarini said that an UNRWA employee had described people in Gaza as “neither dead nor alive – they look”. He said that the agency has the equivalent of 6,000 loaded trucks with food and medical supplies in Jordan and Egypt, which are not yet allowed in the territory.
“Families are no longer dealing: they break down, unable to survive. Their existence is being threatened,” he said.
Israeli troops have killed hundreds of Palestinians who tried to secure food from a limited number of auxiliary cars. The murders have drawn widespread conviction, including from many of Israel's own allies.
Because more than 100 human rights groups and charitable institutions demanded on Wednesday that more help is allowed, Palestinians in Gaza said they were forced to exchange personal items, such as gold jewelry, for flower.
“We live in hunger and daily suffering, because prices have risen in an insane way that can not have a Gazan citizen, whether they are working or unemployed, in a way that is outside the concept,” said Wajih al-Najjar, 70, from Gaza City, the boarder for a family of 13.
“People are forced to go to death in search of some help,” he said The independentregretting the exorbitant price of flower, which he says it has shot from 35 sikkels (£ 7.74) to a maximum of 180 sickles (£ 39.80) per kilo.
Palestinians ask for food from a charity kitchen in Gaza City (Reuters)
Mr. Najjar, who has lost a quarter of his body weight – dropped from 85 kg to 62 kg – said he cannot get a full meal for himself. “So what about children who need food more than three times a day?” he said.
In the meantime, large broadcasters and press agencies, including the BBC and Reuters, have issued a joint explanation to say that their journalists are also confronted with the “threat of hunger” on the spot in Gaza.
“We are desperately worried about our journalists in Gaza, who are increasingly unable to feed themselves and their families,” it was said. “For many months, these independent journalists are the world's eyes and ears on the ground in Gaza. They are now confronted with the same terrible circumstances as they cover.
“Journalists tolerate many hardships and hardships in war zones. We are deeply alerted that the threat of hunger is now one of them.”
More than 100 aid organizations and human rights groups have warned on Wednesday that 'mass hunger' is spreading in Gaza (AFP via Getty)
The prices continue to rise, and the food scarcity has risen to an unprecedented level in the Gaza Strip, in the 21st month of a destructive Israeli invasion and the bombing that Palestinian health officials say that more than 60,000 people have killed.
The war and invasion started on October 7, 2023 in response to attacks on Israel by Hamas militants, who killed 1200 people and conquered at least 250 hostages.
Ihab Abdullah, a 43-year-old university teacher who is the breadwinner for nine family members, said that every night before he goes to sleep, asks: “How will I take care of my children today? I can wear hunger, but what about my children?”
“We are unable to buy or find food in the markets. We live in daily hunger, because the most required raw material, flower, is not available in sufficient quantities. We are in a situation where we cannot buy food, even if we have money. Those who have money and those who have no money are the same. Buy value has disappeared.”
Palestinians gather to receive food cooked by a charity kitchen in the midst of the Israel-Hamas Conflict (Reuters)
Youis Abu Odeh, a 32-year-old who is displaced in Gaza, says he feels that Palestinians “have been put on a chicken farm and starved”.
“We live through a war of extermination, famine and psychological warfare,” said Mr. Odeh The independent. “A travel war, a war of tents, a war war and sun.”
The Israeli government insists that it does not cause a famine. Spokesperson David Mencer said that the “man -caused shortage” of food “was designed by Hamas”.
Mr. Mencer said on Wednesday that more than 4,400 auxiliary cars had entered Gaza between 19 and 22 July, with food, flower and baby food.
The deeper crisis came when Israel brought his delegation home on Thursday -the fires of the ceasefire -the fire after Hamas had given a new answer to a proposal for a ceasefire and a hostage agreement.
The office of the Israeli Prime Minister thanked mediators for their efforts and said that the negotiators returned home for “further consultation”. Earlier it said that Israel was revised Hamas's reaction.
In his statement, Sir Keir said: “It is difficult to see a hopeful future in such dark times. But I have to repeat my call for all parties to enter into good faith, and in pace, to achieve an immediate ceasefiring -and for Hamas to release all hostages unconditionally.
“We are clear that the state is the inalienable right of the Palestinian people. A ceasefire will take us on the way to the recognition of a Palestinian state and a two-state solution, which guarantees peace and safety for Palestinians and Israelis.”
