The spokesman for the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), Kazem Abu Khalaf, stated that the current health and humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip after the adoption of the truce is extremely bad and difficult.
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Abu Khalaf pointed out that the Strip needs the entry of about 700 trucks daily to meet the needs of the population, which amounts to around 2.5 million citizens.
In his statements to the media, Abu Khalaf said that the humanitarian situation in Gaza is extremely difficult, and the current humanitarian truce “has revealed to us the magnitude of the tragedy.” He explained that UNRWA teams were able to reach areas in the northern Gaza Strip to distribute humanitarian aid after the bloody clashes that lasted 48 days were prevented without the presence of agency teams, as they were forced to flee to the south.
He added, “We have seen with our own eyes the extent of the destruction that we used to hear about, and the reality is that the situation is extremely difficult.”
He also noted that the occupation refuses to allow displaced people in the southern Gaza Strip to return to the north.
The military spokesman for the Israeli army, Avichay Adraee, had warned through posts on the “X” platform and in press statements that the residents of the north who have been displaced should not return to their homes, justifying that “the war has not ended” and that the north is a military operational area, as he described it.
According to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), Israeli soldiers also opened fire on many Palestinians who attempted to return to the north on Friday and Saturday, resulting in the killing of one person and the injury of dozens.
This targeting threatens to undermine the current truce due to the daily violations committed by the occupation.
A new wave of displacement occurred on Saturday, amid the prevailing ceasefire since Friday, from the northern Gaza Strip to the south.
Video footage shared by Palestinian journalists on their personal accounts showed dozens of families returning to their homes in the north to check on their conditions and collect some of their belongings. Other footage showed the massive destruction caused by the war machine of the occupation in northern Gaza, revealing to the world the scale of the massacres and genocide that occurred against the population there.
Other footage documented the retrieval of martyrs’ bodies from under the rubble, which civil defense teams could not reach during the war due to the violent bombing that targeted everything in Gaza.
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