UN agencies: All roads in Gaza lead to death
United Nations agencies confirmed on Friday that all roads in Gaza lead to death. Louise Waterridge, emergency official at the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), said that more than two million people are still trapped in horrific conditions in Gaza and deprived of their basic needs.
Watridge indicated – in a statement reported by the agency. Palestinian News (Wafa) – that “the population cannot flee, and it seems as if every path you can take leads to death.” For its part, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said that “the war on children in Gaza” It constitutes a stark reminder of the world’s collective responsibility to do everything possible to end their suffering, stressing that “a generation of children bears the brunt of the brutal violation of their rights and the destruction of their future.”
UNICEF added, in the words of the organization’s chief communications officer in Gaza Rosalia Pauline “Gaza is one of the saddest places for us as humanitarian workers, because every small effort to save a child’s life is lost to violent destruction, For more than 14 months, children remained on the brink of this nightmare, with more than 14,500 children reported killed, and thousands more injured.
She warned of the difficulty of the situation with the arrival of winter in Gaza, where children “feel cold.” And the humidity while they are barefoot,” while many of them are still wearing summer clothes, adding that the children are searching among the rubble for pieces of plastic to burn, and that diseases are spreading in the Gaza Strip in light of the lack of services. Health services and hospitals are constantly being attacked.
In turn, UNRWA said that weather conditions have worsened in recent days and this pattern will continue as expected, but the agency has been forced to give priority to food over shelter assistance. The organization added, “We have supplies outside the Gaza Strip waiting to enter the Strip for six months. This is the reality that humanitarian workers live here. We have to choose between people getting food or getting shelter.”
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