UNRWA has provided food aid to more than 1.5 million people in Gaza since the ceasefire

In a post on X, UNRWA reported that since the ceasefire has opened 37 new emergency shelters, including seven in Gaza City and 30 in northern Gaza. She added that it runs 120 shelters throughout the Gaza Strip, and hosts about 120,000 people.

An ongoing humanitarian crisis

In an interview with United Nations news, the UNICEF spokeswoman Tess Ingram, UNICEF, said that UNICEF “The situation in Gaza is still catastrophic for the children of Gaza.”.

She indicated that it is good that the firing of bombs and bullets stopped, which was killing and wounding children, but added that “The humanitarian crisis continues. I was in Gaza for two weeks and met many children who are still struggling to meet their basic needs to receive psychological and social support. Of course, no child is to school.”.

She explained that UNICEF is now focusing on three priorities at the present time, including ensuring that water flows again, especially in areas where the water was severely damaged, and the pipes and wells were damaged.

She added that they also give priority to health and nutrition, as UNICEF provides medical supplies and nutrition treatments for children and expanding services to help identify children who need nutrition treatments because they suffer from malnutrition. It also reported that they are trying to build the ability again to care for newborns, especially intensive care in hospitals, because many of this infrastructure was destroyed during the war.

Ingram said: “Our last priority is to help people adapt to this winter weather. The atmosphere is still very cold in Gaza and I saw many children without shoes and without jackets, so we focus on bringing those clothes for children as well A house or returned to what she was hoping to be a house, but now it is ruins..

The need for more

UNICEF spokeswoman indicated that many aid has arrived in Gaza, however “We cannot meet the needs of two million people in three weeks of humanitarian aid alone. More assistance that is constantly arrives. We also need the arrival of commercial commodities in order to be stored in the markets.”.

She emphasized that it is necessary for the Rafah crossing to remain open and that the number of medical evacuation operations increases, to ensure that more children get the critical care and treatment they need outside Gaza because the current situation in the Strip does not allow this.

She pointed out that they need to ensure that some materials enter the Gaza Strip, which now has a ban, including pipes to repair water systems and generators to operate water pumps. Ingram talked about her visit to the city of Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip, where she met the nine -year -old child, and his relatives, the two girls, Julia and Dalia. “Talk about their feeling of returning to a devastating house.”.

She said: “I think these three will remain in my mind for a very long time, because they were insisting and hoped in the future despite the very difficult situation that the family was currently going through.”.