Doctors Without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières) said on its X account that the situation of the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip is “catastrophic and words cannot describe it.”
Citing its worker in northern Gaza, Loay Harb, MSF said that the Palestinians are living without food, electricity, internet connection, water, food, and flour, leading to increased instability and suffering for the civilians.
Harb, one of only four remaining MSF staffers in Gaza City, said, “We are facing very difficult times, under siege, poverty, and starvation,” and added that the “medical conditions of patients in the Gaza Strip are very difficult,” and that medical centers do not have enough bed, spaces of medical supplies.
Over the last 24 hours, Day 163 of its onslaught on Gaza, Israel killed more than 92 Palestinians and injured at least 130, mostly women and children, in several parts of the Gaza Strip.
UNICEF said that Israel has killed more than 13.000 Palestinian children in the Gaza Strip since October 7, 2023, and added that the at least a third of the children in the devastated coastal enclave continue to suffer from severe malnutrition, and “do not even have the energy to cry.”
UNICEF Executive Director, Catherine Russel, said: “Thousands more have been injured or we can’t even determine where they are. They may be stuck under rubble … We haven’t seen that rate of death among children in almost any other conflict in the world.”
Russel added: “I have been in wards of children who are suffering from severe anemia malnutrition, the whole ward is absolutely quiet. Because the children, the babies … don’t even have the energy to cry.”
He also said there were what he called “very great bureaucratic challenges” in the process of moving aid trucks into the Gaza Strip, “as famine stalks more than two million Palestinians” since Israel’s genocidal war began.
UNRWA said that the destruction inflicted on the Gaza Strip has resulted in the formation of approximately 23 million tons of rubble, adding that it will take years just to remove and dispose of unexploded ordnance.
It also stated that the lives of over 2 million people have been devastated, as Israel’s bombings have affected homes, schools, clinics, and all other civilian infrastructure.
On Sunday night, limited amounts of humanitarian aid reached the northern parts of the Gaza Strip, insufficient to accommodate even a small part of the dire needs amidst famine and total destruction.
Israel has displaced at least %85 of the population of the Gaza Strip while continuing its deadly siege, blocking the entry of basic urgently needed medical supplies, water, and food, and has already destroyed at least %60 of the infrastructure, the United Nations said.
On Sunday, the Palestinian Health Ministry said that the Israeli army “committed nine massacres against Palestinian families, killing at least 92 Palestinians and wounding 130, mostly women and children,” and added that the numbers do not include those who remain under the rubble.
Israel has now killed at least 31.645 Palestinians, mostly women and children (about 13.000 children), and injured more than 73.676, in the Gaza Strip since October 7, 2023.
