According to the United Nations, the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip remains “more than catastrophic”.
More than one million Palestinians did not receive humanitarian food rations in August, said UN spokesman Stéphane Dujarric in New York. The number of meals cooked daily fell by 35 percent to 450,000 compared to July.
Multiple evacuation orders
Dujarric attributed the drastic decline in cooked meals in part to the multiple evacuation orders of the Israeli armed forces. This means that at least 70 of 130 kitchens have been forced to either cease operations or relocate.
The United Nations humanitarian partners also did not have sufficient food supplies to meet needs in central and southern Gaza for the second month in a row, he said, adding that they would only a food package to families in the central and southern Gaza Strip.
No media in Gaza
Dujarric cited ongoing hostilities, insecurity, damaged roads, the breakdown of law and order and access restrictions as reasons for the critical shortage of relief supplies an.
He also wanted to point out that international media representatives also eleven months after the start of the war, it is still forbidden to enter the Gaza Strip to report on the impact of the war on the humanitarian situation.
“Deadly war-like tactics”
In the West Bank, Israel is using a large-scale Anti-terrorist campaign in the cities of Jenin, Tubas and Tulkarm “deadly war-like tactics, including air strikes,” complained Dujarric.
This has led to further deaths and injuries, and more roads and Infrastructures were destroyed or damaged “Medical facilities have been under siege for over a week, which has severely restricted the movement of ambulances and medical personnel,” said Dujarric.