United Nations (AP) The United Nations said Tuesday that for the previous 66 days, humanitarian supplies has been mostly denied to North Gaza, where Israel began a ground attack on October 6. According to the international organization, this has left between 65,000 and 75,000 Palestinians without access to electricity, food, water, or medical care.
According to the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, or OCHA, Israel has maintained its siege on Beit Lahiya, Beit Hanoun, and Jabaliya in the north, with the Palestinians residing there mainly being denied aid. It said that over 5,500 individuals had recently been forcibly moved from three Beit Lahiya schools to Gaza City.
According to OCHA, there are presently just four U.N.-supported bakeries in the Gaza Strip, all of which are located in Gaza City, which exacerbates the food problem.
After briefing the U.N. Security Council behind closed doors Tuesday afternoon, Sigrid Kaag, the senior U.N. humanitarian and reconstruction coordinator for Gaza, told reporters that the situation facing civilians attempting to survive in Gaza is very dire.
She cited the collapse of law and order, the theft that has made matters worse, and the inability of the United Nations and several aid agencies to provide food and other necessities to hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in need.
Kaag stated that she and other U.N. representatives are constantly requesting that Israel permit convoys to enter North Gaza and other areas, permit commercial products to enter, reopen the Rafah gate from Egypt in the south, and authorize dual-use items.
A request for comment from Israel’s U.N. mission was not immediately answered.
She noted that although the U.N. has set up the logistics for an operation throughout Gaza, humanitarians’ political will cannot be replaced.
It is owned by member states, according to Kaag. In order to address Gaza’s deteriorating humanitarian situation, she encouraged members of the Security Council and the international community at large to exert political will.
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