Six Attempts to Deliver Life-saving Assistance to Northern Gaza Blocked by Israel: OCHA
New York, 14 Nov (ONA) --- The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said that six attempts in the past two days to deliver life-saving assistance to besieged areas in Northern Gaza governorate were blocked by Israeli occupation authorities.
The three missions planned for Tuesday aimed to bring food and water to Jabalia, Beit Hanoun and Beit Lahiya. Wednesday's missions were meant to deliver food and water into Beit Lahiya and Jabalia, and to provide protection and psychosocial support for children in Jabalia.
"Yesterday and today, six attempts to deliver life-saving assistance to besieged areas in Northern Gaza governorate were blocked" by the Israeli authorities, UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric said.
Dujarric said the UN remains committed to its mission to assist those affected by the war and it has submitted four additional requests to Israeli authorities for access to those areas today.
Meanwhile, OCHA warned that repeated displacement is leaving many people increasingly vulnerable, as critical resources are continuing to be exhausted. As of Tuesday, 79% of the Gaza Strip remains under active evacuation orders. Palestinians continue to be directed to areas in and around Al Mawasi, in southern Gaza, that lack basic infrastructure and essential services.
OCHA noted that efforts to scale up the humanitarian response in southern Gaza and central Gaza continue to be hindered by active hostilities, deepening insecurity and significant access impediments.
Across Gaza, dairy products and eggs are nearly non-existent, while few fruits and vegetables are scarcely reported to be found at extremely high prices. Many items have increased over 1,000 % from pre-conflict prices.
The occupation continues its destructive war on the Gaza Strip, now entering its second year, amid escalating massacres against families and shelters, as well as unprecedented humanitarian suffering across all sectors, particularly in terms of living conditions. There is a severe shortage of fuel and food due to the starvation campaign being waged by the occupation against the residents of the region.
The Gaza Strip and other occupied Palestinian territories experience unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe due to the Israeli brutal, barbaric and heinous aggression and genocide committed against defenseless civilians in the strip and the occupied West Bank. The ongoing aggression in the Gaza Strip causes horrible health conditions following the persistent, deliberate attacks on medical buildings, hospitals and civil infrastructure, deliberately denying the entry of medical supplies and fuel needed by medical complexes, as well as preventing the access of aid convoys to the Strip in a flagrant violation of the International Humanitarian Law, Geneva Conventions and resolutions of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) amidst paralysis of the international community.
--- Ends/Khalid
