Five organizations, including the World Health Organization, the World Food Program and UNICEF, said in a statement: “The humanitarian situation in Gaza before the recent military operations was dire. Today it is catastrophic.”
“Today is a catastrophic day,” he added, calling on the international community to “do more” to help the people of Gaza.
On Saturday, the first humanitarian aid convoy entered the area, which has been under siege since 2007, including twenty trucks arriving from Egypt via the Rafah crossing. But the number is too low for the United Nations, which requires 100 trucks to enter Gaza every day to provide relief to Gaza’s 2.4 million people.
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Saturday during a “peace summit” in Cairo that “the people of Gaza need more. There is a need for massive aid.”
“Children are dying at alarming rates, deprived of their right to safety, food, water and medical care,” confirmed five UN agencies.
He continued, “Hospitals are overflowing with injured people. The public is facing great difficulty in accessing basic food items.”
4,385 people were killed in the Gaza Strip, including 1,756 children and 967 women, and 13,561 were injured. According to the latest tally from the Hamas Health Ministry released on Saturday, 51 health workers were among the dead, and 87 others were wounded.
On the Israeli side, more than 1,400 people, most of them civilians, were killed in the first day of the Hamas offensive.
What happened?
- The first humanitarian aid convoys sent to Gaza have arrived Gaza The besieged man, who has been under siege since the outbreak of war there, crossed the Rafah crossing on Saturday after days of aid being trapped in Egypt.
- A convoy of 20 trucks carrying life-saving supplies will be provided by the Palestinian Red Cross, the United Nations said.
- But this aid represents only a small fraction of the amount urgently needed, and it is unclear how much aid will be allowed to be delivered in the coming days.
- The Rafah crossing is the main route into and out of Gaza, which it does not control Israel, and the focus of efforts to provide aid to the Strip’s 2.3 million residents.
- UN officials say Gaza needs at least 100 trucks a day to deliver essential supplies, and any aid influx would need to be continuous and large-scale.
- Before the conflict erupted, about 450 aid trucks arrived in Gaza every day.
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