Humanitarian Access to North Gaza Nearly Halted for Two Months

• RDA Gulf Correspondent
• . December 11, 2024
• . Update: December 11, 2024 11:00 pm
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The United Nations said Tuesday that for the previous 66 days humanitarian supplies had been mostly halted to North Gaza where Israel began a ground attack on October 6. According to the international organization, this has left between 65,000 and 75,000 Palestinians without access to electricity, food, water and medical care.

According to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) Israel has maintained its blockade on Beit Lahiya, Beit Hanoun and Jabaliya in the north with the Palestinians residing there mainly being denied aid. It said that over 5,500 individuals had recently been forcibly moved from three Beit Lahiya schools to Gaza City.

According to OCHA, there are presently just four supported by UN eateries in the Gaza Strip, all of which are located in Gaza City. After briefing the UN Security Council behind closed doors Tuesday afternoon, Sigrid Kaag who is the senior UN humanitarian and reconstruction coordinator for Gaza told reporters that the situation facing civilians attempting to survive in Gaza is “utterly devastating.”

She cited the collapse of law and order, the looting that has made matters worse and the inability of the UN and several aid agencies to provide food and other necessities to hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in need. Kaag stated that she and other UN representatives are constantly requesting that Israel permit convoys to enter North Gaza and other areas, permit commercial products to enter, reopen the Rafah gate from Egypt in the south and authorize dual-use commodities.

According to her, the UN has set up the logistics for an operation throughout Gaza, but humanitarian’s political will cannot be replaced. “Member states possess it” Kaag stated. She also asked members of the Security Council and the international community at large to push for the political will to address Gaza’s deteriorating humanitarian situation.