PNN – United Nations officials and international institutions have sounded the alarm that the deadline for saving the people of Gaza from the deep humanitarian disaster in this strip has expired, and emphasized that Israel is committing the crime of ethnic cleansing in Gaza and has deprived its residents of the minimum basic necessities of life.
According to the report of Pakistan News Network, Following international warnings about the depth of the humanitarian disaster in the Gaza Strip, Volker Turk, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, announced in his new words that the escalation of Israel’s attacks against Gaza and the attempt to change the population structure of this strip is equivalent to the crime of ethnic cleansing.
Israel commits the crime of ethnic cleansing in Gaza
Volker Turk warned about the escalation of concerns about a wider Israeli attack against the Gaza Strip: The terrible bombings that target the people of Gaza day and night and the systematic destruction of all neighborhoods and the failure to provide humanitarian aid to this strip in the midst of successive threats for more severe attacks are part of Israel’s effort to change the permanent population structure in the Gaza Strip, which is contrary to international law and is considered equivalent to ethnic cleansing.
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Israel has deprived the people of Gaza of the minimum basic standards of living
Emphasizing the need to stop this insane process, he said: All parties, including influential countries, must stop Israel’s aggression in Gaza. Medical services in the Gaza Strip are collapsing and the refugees in this strip have nowhere to go. Families are forced to live in tents that are not suitable at all and do not have the minimum standards to maintain human dignity, and in addition, severe hunger has engulfed the people of this strip in the shadow of Israel’s comprehensive blockade against Gaza.
This UN official emphasized: Israel’s recent heavy attacks specifically targeted the two large Khan Yunis hospitals in the south of the Gaza Strip, namely the Nasser Medical Complex and the European Hospital, and led to the shutdown of the European Hospital. According to international law, hospitals must be protected in all situations, and especially the protection of hospitals is more vital and necessary during wartime. The killing of sick and injured people and those who take care of their injured or sick loved ones, the massacre of emergency workers and other civilians who are seeking shelter, is very horrible and tragic and these aggressions must be stopped.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights stated: Even if Israel, as it claims, intends to target Hamas’ underground and command centers, according to international law, it must ensure the protection of civilian lives; What Israel does not do.
On the other hand, the World Health Organization has sounded the alarm of the collapse of the health system in Gaza and announced that the time to save the besieged people in the Gaza Strip is running out.
A real famine is imminent in Gaza
Tom Wilcher, the United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, for his part, stated: Israel is fully aware of what is happening in Gaza at the level of a humanitarian disaster, and UN assessments show that this strip is completely at risk of famine.
He added: The health system of the Gaza Strip is under severe pressure and is facing a severe shortage of medicine and medical supplies and equipment. Medical supply sources in Gaza have almost exhausted their supplies and many essential health services are no longer provided in this strip.
This UN official noted: Medical and health aid is poised to enter Gaza, but the blockade is preventing them from entering, forcing hospitals to ration their remaining supplies. This situation is a serious danger to human lives that can be saved.
He pointed out that UN institutions have not been able to provide aid to Gaza since the last 10 weeks. We have a comprehensive plan to provide aid on a large scale in Gaza, and we started implementing this plan during the ceasefire, but now it is not possible to implement this plan due to the heavy blockade against Gaza.
Time is running out to save the people of Gaza
For his part, Farhan Haq, Deputy Spokesman of the Secretary General of the United Nations, said that we have a basic operational plan to provide humanitarian aid and rescue services on a large scale inside the Gaza Strip, and this plan is ready to be implemented as soon as the crossings are opened.
He added: Time is very important to prevent more deaths of innocent civilians in the Gaza Strip.
On the other hand, the World Food Program reported in its new statement on the humanitarian disaster in Gaza: While the shipments of food aid remain behind the crossings in Gaza, people in this strip are hungry every day.
The threat of the future generations of Gaza in the shadow of the occupiers’ use of prohibited weapons
Dr. Munir al-Barsh, director general of the Gaza Ministry of Health, also announced that this strip has witnessed the most horrific killings and ethnic cleansing crimes, and the occupying regime continues to massacre civilians and target vital facilities using internationally prohibited weapons.
He said yesterday evening that according to official statistics, 250 Palestinians have been martyred in the massacres carried out by the occupation forces in just 36 hours, and with the continuation of heavy bombing of residential areas, the number of martyrs will increase in a terrible way.
This Gaza medical official emphasized that medical centers and hospitals suffer from a severe shortage of supplies, medical equipment and medicine, and this makes efforts to save the injured much more difficult.
He warned about the alarming increase in fetal abnormalities due to the occupation’s use of internationally prohibited weapons with radioactive and chemical effects, and said that the consequences of the Zionists’ use of these weapons are not limited to their direct effects on civilians in Gaza, but also threaten the lives of future generations.
The Director General of the Gaza Ministry of Health further warned about the collapse of the health system of this strip, and once again asked the international community to take serious action for the immediate arrival of aid to Gaza and the opening of safe crossings to transport the wounded and sick out of this strip.