Highlights: In Gaza, “we live like in a film about the end of the world,” says this resident. According to the UN, 2.2 million people, the vast majority of the population, are threatened with famine, particularly children. The deterioration of security conditions has led to a shortage of humanitarian aid in the north of the Palestinian enclave. “We hope that this war will end as quickly as possible and that there will be urgent international intervention,’ says Jumana.

On Thursday February 22, Israel bombed the overpopulated town of Rafah, in the south of the Gaza Strip, where the army is preparing a ground offensive. According to the UN, 2.2 million people, the immense…

In Gaza, “we live like in a film about the end of the world,” says this resident

On Thursday February 22, Israel bombed the overpopulated town of Rafah, in the south of the Gaza Strip, where the army is preparing a ground offensive.

According to the UN, 2.2 million people, the vast majority of the population, are threatened with famine, particularly children.

Mourners cry next to the bodies of Palestinians killed in Israeli strikes, in the southern Gaza Strip, February 22, 2024. © Ibraheem Abu Mustafa / Reuters

By: RFI Follow

Without sufficient access to food, clean water or health services, the lives of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in the northern Gaza Strip

are

in immediate danger, four Israeli rights groups have warned of man.

The latter wrote to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to “

demand

” that

Israel

“

act immediately

” and “

respect its obligations under international law

”.

According to Ricardo Pirès, spokesperson for Unicef, hundreds of thousands of children live in very difficult conditions, "

forced to drink contaminated water and eat very little and only basic food, without the nutrients that a child needs to grow up healthy

In Rafah, children are forced to live in a very limited space.

“

The population density is equivalent to double the population of a city like New York for example

,” estimates Ricardo Pirès, before adding that the help that residents need is not arriving.

“

The children therefore do not have enough to eat and drink.
They don't have any medicine.
We know that many of them have been injured so they cannot travel.
The evacuation request made to them is just unrealistic.
Many will not be able to move.
The families themselves are traumatized.
They live in tents or under plastic sheeting, without having the most basic means to survive

,” he concludes.

Rarefied humanitarian aid

The deterioration of security conditions has led to

a shortage of humanitarian aid

in the north of the Palestinian enclave where famine has spread to this part of the territory.

“

We in the Gaza Strip are living like in an end of the world movie, the bombings are all around us and above our heads.
People drink rainwater and make bread from animal fodder to give to their children and satisfy their hunger.
We, in the north of the Gaza Strip, in particular, are living in a state of real famine

,” laments Jumana, a resident who remained in the north of the Gaza Strip.

It says basic materials like flour, sugar, rice, electricity and water “

are not available

”.

“

We hope that this war will end as quickly as possible and that there will be urgent international intervention

,” she asks.

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In Gaza, “we live like in a film about the end of the world,” says this resident

In Gaza, “we live like in a film about the end of the world,” says this resident

Rarefied humanitarian aid

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