The United Nations (UN) reported this Friday that The World Food Program (WFP) has not been able to get food into Gaza since October 1eleven days ago, because the vital aid lines to the north of the strip were cut.
“The WFP distributed its last food stocks in northern Gaza to partners and kitchens hosting newly displaced families, but barely enough for two weeks”, Farhan Haq, deputy spokesperson for the UN Secretary General, António Guterres, said at a press conference this Friday.
Haq added that many of the kitchens, distribution points and bakeries in northern Gaza have been forced to close, and others are at risk of doing so if the conflict with Israel “continues on this scale.”
The situation is also at its limit in southern Gaza, the spokesman said, where food is not distributed “and Bakeries struggle to obtain wheat flour – bread being the basic food of the Palestinian diet – which puts them at risk of closing any day.
In this sense, he stressed that, due to the damage that the bakeries have suffered or due to the lack of fuel in these businesses, it is difficult to bake food.
Farhan Haq further recalled that aid entering Gaza is at its lowest level in months, but that “despite the difficulties”, humanitarian organizations are responding “to the best of their ability.”
The WFP insisted this Thursday in a report that If the flow of aid is not resumed, one million people will be deprived of food.
On the other hand, the organization Doctors Without Borders (MSF) warned this Friday that about 12,000 injured in urgent need of specialized treatment remain trapped in the Gaza Strip, and urged that Israel allows their evacuation.
In a statement, MSF highlighted that at least 4,000 of the total number of wounded during more than a year of war in Gaza – almost 98,000 people – “need reconstructive surgery”, as is the case of a dozen boys and girls who have been receiving treatment “since several weeks ago” at the MSF specialized hospital in Amman, Jordan.
According to MSF, It is estimated that “there are 6,075 evacuations approved out of a total of 15,600 requested (38%)” until September 30, “Of them, just over 5,100 have already been effectively carried out,” and “there would be around 12,000 more people in need of urgent evacuation.”
After recalling that the MSF hospital in Amman has been treating people with wounds from wars throughout the region for almost 20 years, the NGO also referred to the “strong impact” on mental health and psychological problems caused by the war.
(With information from EFE)