{"id":281967,"date":"2024-12-09T12:00:09","date_gmt":"2024-12-09T12:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=281967"},"modified":"2024-12-06T05:36:03","modified_gmt":"2024-12-06T05:36:03","slug":"no-food-no-water-unrwa-warns-besieged-in-northern-gaza-will-die-of-hunger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2024\/12\/no-food-no-water-unrwa-warns-besieged-in-northern-gaza-will-die-of-hunger\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018No Food, No Water\u2019 \u2013 UNRWA Warns Besieged in Northern Gaza \u2018Will Die of Hunger\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_281968\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/gaza-israel-genocide-palestine-2.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-281968\" class=\"wp-image-281968\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/gaza-israel-genocide-palestine-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-281968\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">4 Dec 2024: Israeli strike on a Gaza tent camp kills at least 21 people&#8211;most of them incinerated.\u00a0 Hindustan Times<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>5 Dec 2024 <\/em>&#8211; Around 60,000 Palestinians in the northern Gaza Strip are living in catastrophic conditions under the Israeli siege that has been ongoing for more than 60 days, according to a spokesperson for UNRWA (UN Relief Agency for Palestine Refugees).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is an absolutely unprecedented level of tragedy. It\u2019s an unprecedented humanitarian crisis,\u201d said Jonathan Fowler, UNRWA\u2019s Senior Director of Communications, in an interview with the Anadolu news agency.<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-1\" class=\"\" title=\"X Post\" 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frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1864338884085338555\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Describing the situation as \u201cperfectly catastrophic\u201d Fowler said, \u201cEverywhere you look all the indicators are completely disastrous, the lack of medicine, the lack of food, the lack of drinking water, the lack of access, the constant displacement, the death, the destruction, the missing people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Almost two million people in Gaza were \u201centirely reliant on humanitarian aid to survive,\u201d the spokesperson stressed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a man-made disaster and it\u2019s absolutely unconscionable that this continues,\u201d Fowler emphasized.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Reduced Entry of Trucks<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>He explained that \u201cit\u2019s not complicated to understand that if you need 500 trucks of food and other supplies a day and you\u2019re only getting 70, 80, 90 \u2013 that is why people are suffering so severely.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Palestinians in northern Gaza \u201care completely cut off,\u201d Fowler continued, \u201cThey have no food, they have no water, there\u2019s not even any ambulances.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-2\" class=\"\" title=\"X Post\" 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frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1864589097710358676\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Overall the north is one of the most affected areas of the entire Gaza Strip, said the spokesperson, \u201cthat pocket is the sort of epicentre of the current humanitarian tragedy and that this again is a reason why there has to be access for humanitarians and there has to be an immediate ceasefire.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He warned due to the \u201cabsolute level of tragedy there, people will be dying of hunger in those besieged areas,\u201d as there is \u201cnothing to eat.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe responsibility to protect aid workers and aid supplies falls upon the occupying power and that is the state of Israel. And so everything must be done by the Israeli authorities to ensure that aid flows safely into Gaza,\u201d Fowler stated.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Ongoing Genocide<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Flouting a UN Security Council resolution demanding an immediate ceasefire, Israel has faced international condemnation amid its continued brutal offensive on Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>Currently on trial before the International Court of Justice for genocide against Palestinians, Israel has been waging a devastating war on Gaza since October 7.<\/p>\n<p>According to Gaza\u2019s Ministry of Health, 44,580 Palestinians have been killed, and 105,739 wounded in Israel\u2019s ongoing genocide in Gaza starting on October 7, 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, at least 11,000 people are unaccounted for, presumed dead under the rubble of their homes throughout the Strip.<\/p>\n<p>Israel says that 1,200 soldiers and civilians were killed during the Al-Aqsa Flood Operation on October 7. Israeli media published reports suggesting that many Israelis were killed on that day by \u2018friendly fire\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Palestinian and international organizations say that the majority of those killed and wounded are women and children.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Millions Displaced<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>The Israeli war has resulted in an acute famine, mostly in northern Gaza, resulting in the death of many Palestinians, mostly children.<\/p>\n<p>The Israeli aggression has also resulted in the forceful displacement of nearly two million people from all over the Gaza Strip, with the vast majority of the displaced forced into the densely crowded southern city of Rafah near the border with Egypt \u2013 in what has become Palestine\u2019s largest mass exodus since the 1948 Nakba.<\/p>\n<p>Later in the war, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians began moving from the south to central Gaza in a constant search for safety.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.defenddemocracy.press\/no-food-no-water-unrwa-warns-besieged-in-northern-gaza-will-die-of-hunger\/\" >Go to Original &#8211; defenddemocracy.press<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>5 Dec 2024 &#8211; Around 60,000 Palestinians in the northern Gaza Strip are living in catastrophic conditions under the Israeli siege that has been ongoing for more than 60 days. \u201cThis is an absolutely unprecedented level of tragedy. It\u2019s an unprecedented humanitarian crisis,\u201d said Jonathan Fowler, UNRWA\u2019s Senior Director of Communications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":281968,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[554,1854,100,87,865,487,88,2571,427,818,880,99,3220,124,965,886],"class_list":["post-281967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-palestine-israel-gaza-genocide","tag-children","tag-crimes-against-humanity","tag-direct-violence","tag-gaza","tag-genocide","tag-human-rights","tag-israel","tag-official-lies-and-narratives","tag-palestine","tag-proxy-war","tag-state-terrorism","tag-structural-violence","tag-un-agency-for-palestinian-refugees-unrwa","tag-united-nations","tag-war-crimes","tag-zionism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281967"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":281970,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281967\/revisions\/281970"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}