The Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) said on Tuesday that 700,000 people in the Gaza Strip have been infected with infectious diseases, the majority of them children.
The PRCS said that the Israeli occupation is hindering the entry of aid into the Gaza Strip, and warned that any Israeli aggression on Rafah in the south of the Strip would leave thousands of victims.
Nawal Farsakh, the PRCS’s media officer, said in a statement to Cairo News Agency that children in Gaza are suffering from malnutrition and lack of clean water.
Farsakh said that the PRCS is providing medical and humanitarian assistance to the people of Gaza, but that the Israeli occupation is making it difficult to do so.
Kazem Abu Khalaf, the spokesperson for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), said on Tuesday that the suspension of funding from some countries is like a “coup de grace”.
Abu Khalaf said that UNRWA will be forced to close schools and clinics in the Gaza Strip if the suspension of funding continues.
He added that UNRWA provides services to 600,000 Palestinian students in its schools, and that there is no other institution or alternative that can provide these services.
