The United Nations Agency for Palestine refugees in the Middle East (UNRWA) has denounced this Friday the “collective punishment” to the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip after two months of Israeli blockade at the entrance of humanitarian aid and has claimed to Israel that “raising the fence.”
“Today there are two months of fence against the people of Gaza. It is a fence against children, women, elders and civilian men. They are collectively punished for birth and live in Gaza, something that does not depend on them,” said the agency’s general commissioner, Philippe Lazzarini.
Thus, he pointed out that “the state of Israel must raise the fence and allow the flow of basic supplies”, before warning that “with each additional day, the fence will silently kill more children and women, regardless of the dead because of the” Israeli bombings against the Palestinian enclave.
“It is time to demonstrate that we have not totally lost our humanity,” said Lazzarini, who has emphasized his account in the social network X in which Israeli hostages that remain retained in Gaza from the attacks of October 7, 2023 “must be released.”
For its part, the UNRWA has pointed out in another message in X on the occasion of the two months of Israeli block that “food supplies are running out” and recalled that “the aid is still blocked outside Gaza, prepared to be moved.”
“The UNRWA and its partners have vital help waiting at the borders,” he reiterated, while he has argued that “border crossings must reopen.” “The population of Gaza cannot continue waiting,” the organization has apostilled.
The Israel authorities blocked on March 2 the entry of aid into the strip and broke on the 18th of that month the high the fire reached in January with Hamas, reactivating their military offensive against Gaza, launched in response to the aforementioned attacks, which left about 1,200 dead and about 250 kidnapped, according to the official balance.
For their part, the Gazati authorities raised more than 52,400 the dead and 118,000 the injured since the beginning of the offensive, a figure that includes more than 2,300 dead and 6,000 injured since the resumption of attacks by Israeli forces.
