The United Nations (UN) Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs has warned of Israeli authorities’ obstruction of humanitarian aid delivery to Gaza.
The UN highlighted that restrictions on aid delivery to Gaza continue to hinder the arrival of life-saving supplies, especially for hundreds of thousands of residents in the northern part of the enclave, including children, where the number of children on the brink of death due to severe hunger is increasing.
Dr. Margaret Harris, spokesperson for the World Health Organization, said, “Doctors and health workers tell us they see the effects of hunger on people in Gaza as they see newborns dying because they are born severely underweight. Increasingly, we see children on the brink of death in need of nutritional care.”
The UN report added, “Rates of malnutrition are sharply rising in northern Gaza, and the World Health Organization supports the establishment of a nutritional centre at Kamal Adwan Hospital, the only children’s hospital in the northern part of the enclave.
The organization supports a centre in Rafah for treating children suffering from complications of severe malnutrition. It also contributes to establishing another centre in Rafah at a field hospital.
Jeremy Lawrence, the spokesperson for the Commission, mentioned, “The ongoing Israeli restrictions on the entry of aid into Gaza, along with the manner in which combat operations continue, could amount to using starvation as a method of warfare, which constitutes a war crime.”
Furthermore, the Gaza Health Ministry announced today that the death toll from the Israeli war on the enclave since October 7 has risen to 31,819, while the number of injured has increased to 73,934, according to the “Arab World News Agency.”
