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Yesterday, Thursday, the Palestinian Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip accused Israel of using the weapon of starvation to achieve “record numbers in genocide crimes.”
Ministry spokesman Ashraf Al-Qudra said in a statement that the Israeli occupation “is committing genocide in the Gaza Strip by bombing, starvation, and preventing treatment.”
Israeli artillery targeted a gathering of Palestinians near the Kuwait Roundabout, south of Gaza City, who were waiting to receive humanitarian aid, resulting in dozens of martyrs and wounded.
Al-Qudra said, "The occupation is committing a horrific massacre against thousands of hungry mouths who were waiting for humanitarian aid at the Kuwait roundabout."
This is not the first time that the Israeli army has targeted gatherings of citizens waiting for scarce humanitarian and relief aid that rarely reaches Gaza Governorate and the northern Gaza Strip.
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Scarce amounts of humanitarian aid enter the Gaza and North governorates, as the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) previously said that it began last December 27 to enter about 7 trucks per day for the first time after the end of the humanitarian truce at the beginning of the same month.
More than once, UNRWA said that its buses carrying aid came under fire from the Israeli side.
In a report, Reuters said that hunger is spreading its claws throughout the Gaza Strip, where 2.2 million people have been living under Israeli bombardment since the seventh of last October.
The United Nations warned this week that pockets in the northern Gaza Strip face the risk of famine, while relief workers said that areas near the Egyptian border receive limited supplies of imported food, but there is a catastrophe facing people in the northern and central Gaza Strip.
The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) expects that more than 10,000 children in Gaza are at risk of wasting and abnormal weight loss in the coming weeks, which is one of the most dangerous results of malnutrition that may hinder body and brain development.
In this context, the Director of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, yesterday, Thursday, described the conditions in Gaza as “hellish.”
In a speech before the Executive Board of the World Health Organization in Geneva, Ghebreyesus warned that more people in the Gaza Strip would die from hunger and disease.
Source: Agencies