Access Denied – UNRWA Cannot Deliver Food to Northern Gaza

By Palestine Chronicle Workers  

Half of UNRWA’s assist mission requests to northern Gaza have been denied this 12 months, in line with the UN Company for Palestine Refugees.  

“The final time UNRWA was allowed to ship meals north or Wadi Gaza was on 23 January,” Philippe Lazzarini, UNRWA’s Commissioner-Basic stated in an announcement on X, on Thursday. 

“Because the starting of the 12 months, half of our assist mission requests to the north had been denied,” he added. 

The UN, Lazzarini said, has recognized deep pockets of hunger and starvation in northern Gaza the place persons are believed to be on the verge of famine.

“At the very least 300,000 folks residing within the space rely on our help for his or her survival,” the UN chief emphasised.

The final time @UNRWA was allowed to ship meals north or Wadi #Gaza was on 23 January.

Because the starting of the 12 months, half of our assist mission requests to the north had been denied.

The @UN has recognized deep pockets of hunger and starvation in northern #Gaza the place persons are… pic.twitter.com/CuzocLTLAS

— Philippe Lazzarini (@UNLazzarini) February 8, 2024

Stopping entry prevents life-saving humanitarian assist, he continued. “With the mandatory political will, this may be simply reversed.”

Grinding Animal Fodder to Eat

Earlier, UNRWA additionally posted on X that “Our colleagues in north Gaza report ‘there may be nothing to eat. Animal fodder is floor up and cooked to eat’.”

A video circulating on social media has proven folks in a mill in northern Gaza grinding animal feed to make flour, as a result of an absence of wheat flour, in line with the Anadolu information company. 

Lazzarini reiterated that UNRWA “is the primary lifeline for Palestine Refugees in Gaza and the Center East.”

“Extra assist is required to UNRWA not much less”, he added. 

In the meantime, UNRWA additionally posted an aerial picture from northern Gaza of utter devastation, saying the realm is “unrecognizable.”

Half of @UNRWA assist mission requests to northern📍#Gaza have been denied this 12 months #AccessDenied

Our colleagues in north #Gaza report “there may be nothing to eat. Animal fodder is floor up and cooked to eat.” https://t.co/MuEWYHD5E5

— UNRWA (@UNRWA) February 8, 2024

“The scenario is catastrophic. There may be not a single home that was not broken,” the publish said. 

“Abdallah, our colleague who took this picture, describes unimaginable destruction. Total neighborhoods gone with out hint. Persons are drained, there’s nothing to eat”’.

Israel’s navy offensive within the Gaza Strip has left 85% of the inhabitants internally displaced amid acute shortages of meals, clear water, and medication, in line with the UN.

Funding Suspended

So as to add to the devastating humanitarian scenario, a number of Western nations together with the US, UK and France, have suspended funding value $440 million to the URWA after Israel alleged a few of its staff had been concerned within the October 7 operation carried out by the Palestinian Resistance.

UNRWA terminated the contracts of the workers members involved, and an unbiased investigation is underway.

The Aid Company has warned that it could “most probably” be pressured to close down its operations in Gaza in addition to throughout the area by the tip of February if funding stays suspended.  

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In response to Gaza’s Ministry of Well being, 27,840 Palestinians have been killed, and 67,317 wounded in Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza beginning on October 7.

Furthermore, not less than 8,000 persons are unaccounted for, presumed useless beneath the rubble of their properties all through the Strip.

Palestinian and worldwide estimates say that almost all of these killed and wounded are girls and youngsters.

The Israeli aggression has additionally resulted within the forceful displacement of practically two million folks from all the Gaza Strip, with the overwhelming majority of the displaced pressured into the densely crowded southern metropolis of Rafah close to the border with Egypt – in what has turn out to be Palestine’s largest mass exodus for the reason that 1948 Nakba.

(The Palestine Chronicle)