According to the UN Humanitarian Aid Coordination Office, Ocha, and UN partners who work to provide support to save lives to civilians against the continuous Israeli restrictions in help.
The closure of nutrition services in the Gaza Government is hindering efforts to detect new famine victims and maintain treatment for hundreds of children, UN spokesman, Stéphane Durric, said on Monday to correspondents in New York.
More than 160 deaths due to hunger
“On Friday, the Ministry of Health said that 162 people, including 32 children, have died from starvation and malnutrition since the famine was confirmed,” he said.
As Israeli military operations have continued through the strip, Palestinian civil defense teams said that in the last 10 days, more than 50 rescue or recovery missions have carried out.
“Health services are also under severe tension,” Dujarric continued. “Today, the Ministry of Health in Gaza asked people to donate blood in the midst of severe shortage in hospitals.”
He stressed that no civilian should be attacked and that civil infrastructure should always be protected.
Crowded beaches, sleeping outdoors
The growing number of civilians who are forced to go south by the large -scale offensive of Israel to snatch control of the city of Gaza is exerting growing pressure on the already tense services available in Khan Younis and deir to Balah, where the conditions are serious, Durric said.
Tens of thousands have to get into the tents along the beach or put the school shelters, while others are “sleeping outdoors in the rubble of buildings and houses destroyed.”
The UN continues to serve those in need, as much as possible: on Monday, seven of the 12 humanitarian missions coordinated with the Israeli authorities were facilitated. While the UN teams managed to collect Kerem Shalom’s health supplies. Two other missions to recover the food load were denied.