Over 100 legal and aid organizations call for urgent action to address the hunger crisis in Gaza.
The statement stressed the need for an immediate and permanent ceasefire and the complete lifting of restrictions on the entry of humanitarian aid into Gaza.
The organizations signing the statement warned that the risk of mass famine across Gaza was serious, while thousands of tons of food, drinking water and medical equipment remained behind the crossings and outside the borders of Gaza and could not be distributed.
These institutions further called the restrictions imposed by the Israeli regime, delays in the administrative process and the fragmentation of the aid delivery process within the framework of the comprehensive blockade among the main factors of the current crisis situation, and considered it to be the cause of chaos, hunger and death in the region.
These organizations also called for the immediate lifting of all bureaucratic and administrative restrictions, the opening of all land crossings and the guarantee of full and unhindered access of aid to all areas of Gaza. They also rejected the distribution system that is under the control of the Israeli army.
The statement also called on governments to take concrete steps to end the siege of Gaza, including stopping the shipment of weapons and ammunition to Israel.
According to IRNA, the Palestinian government media office in the Gaza Strip previously called on the international community, all countries in the world, international and human rights organizations, and political institutions in a statement to open safe and permanent routes for the transfer of food and medicine to the Gaza Strip with direct and real supervision and to prevent any sabotage by the occupying regime.
The statement emphasized that humanitarian aid must be free from any political games and control by the occupiers or their accomplices.
The Gaza media office also described the siege of the Strip as a mass crime against the civilian population and called for its immediate lifting.
The organization called for global pressure to stop the genocide, starvation policies, and displacement in Gaza, and stressed the need for an urgent international investigation into the crime of starvation and the prosecution of its perpetrators.
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) also announced in a statement that there is enough food for Gaza residents for more than three months in our warehouses, including in the city of Arish, but we are still waiting for permission to enter.
UNRWA added: Open the crossings and end the siege of Gaza so that we can fulfill our humanitarian duty and help those in need, including one million children.