Cairo (AP) – Hungry is almost avoided Gaza As A rapid increase in aid Enter the territory during a A fragile ceasefirethe UN Humanitarian Director said on Sunday. However, he warned that if the ceasefire collapsed, the threat could soon return.
Tom Fletcher spoke to the Associated Press after two days of visiting Gaza. There, hundreds of trucks carrying humanitarian aid have arrived every day since the ceasefire began on January 19th.
“I think the threat of hunger is largely avoided,” Fletcher said in Cairo. “These hunger levels have fallen from where they were before the ceasefire.”
He said concerns have risen about whether the ceasefire could be extended and the intention is to begin with a more difficult second phase. The first phase of the six weeks is in the middle.
As part of the contract, Israel said it would allow 600 aid trucks to be put into Gaza every day. anxiety It interferes with both the intrusion and distribution of food, medicines and other severely necessary items.
The UN Office for Humanitarian Affairs says more than 12,600 aid trucks have entered Gaza since the ceasefire took effect.
Fletcher urged both Hamas, prompting him to reaffirm his control of the territory hours after the ceasefire came into effect, prompting Israel to stick to the deal that “saved so many lives.”
“The conditions are still terrible and people are still hungry,” he said. “If the ceasefire falls, if the ceasefire breaks, those (hunger-like) states will come back again very quickly.”
The internationally recognized mortality threshold for hunger is More than two deaths per 10,000 people per day.
The current ceasefire, food security monitors, UN officials and more Warning of the Possibility of Hungry In the destroyed Gaza, particularly parts of the North, it has been largely in segregated since the early weeks of the 16-month war. Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians were able to return north under the ceasefire.
“We can’t sit down and allow these people to starve to death,” Cindy McCain, the head of the United Nations World Food Program, told CBS in December. The Biden administration has repeatedly urged Israel to allow more aid to be delivered, warning that if it doesn’t, it could cause US restrictions on military assistance.
Fletcher said that the territory of more than 2 million people is critically needed for more food and medical supplies, most of which have been evacuated, and he is sick due to a lack of basic health supplies. He said he expressed concern about the outbreak of the incident. He also called for an expansion of tents and other shelters to those returning to their homeland as the winter continued.
“We have to get tens of thousands of tents very quickly, so that we can evacuate these conditions, especially those returning north,” he said.
Fletcher said he entered Palestinian territory through Erez, which crossed between Israel and northern Gaza, where he ran through the “bombed, flat and crushed” areas.
“I don’t know the difference between schools, hospitals, and homes,” he said of the North.
He said he saw people trying to find out where their home was and gathered the bodies of their loved ones from the tile rub. He saw the dog also searching for a corpse inside the tile rub.
“It’s a horror movie. It’s a horror show,” he said. “It breaks your heart over and over again. Drive miles and miles and miles. This is everything you see.”
Fletcher admitted that some Palestinians are angry with the international community about the war and its reaction.
“There was despair and anger, and I can understand this anger towards the world that has happened to them,” he said. “But there was also a sense of rebellion. People said, “We’re going back to our home. We’re going back to where we’ve lived for generations and we’re going to rebuild.”
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