“Military activities are continuing in and around Gaza City, but also in the South, making a heavy price on civilians, including deaths, injuries and additional trips,” UN spokesperson Stéphane Dujar said at the Daily Press Conference in New York: “Our colleagues report that people continue to flee, mainly to the coast.”
More than 76,000 people have been newly moved since mid-August, most of them occurring in the North, he said, citing the last reports of the United Nations agencies on the ground which monitor the movements of the population. More than 23,000 people were moved from northern Gaza.
The coastal areas are also cluttered with tents, forcing many people to flee from Gaza City to the north towards the central regions, according to the United Nations Humanitarian Coordination Agency, OCHA.
Famine response: “We can redo this”
Daily malnutrition death reports are continuing, said UN spokesperson. Since the start of the almost two year war, more than 300 people, many of whom have died of malnutrition in the strip, according to local authorities.
The World Gastronomic Program (WFP) said that the situation “continues to deteriorate,” added the UN spokesperson, adding that families without valid members to seek foods are faced with the highest risks.
As such, the United Nations agency resumed its good digital distribution system last week, reaching 22,000 people, including vulnerable groups, after a five -month break.
“We and our partners continue to transport aid and other medical supplies to and from the passages [into Gaza]But current situations on the ground have not yet allowed us to resume community distribution, “said Dujarric. Only a ceasefire will ensure the conditions necessary for a massive response to prevent famine from spreading more. “”
During the previous ceasefire from January to March, he said: “We reached almost all people in the Gaza Strip with rescue aid, and we can start again.”
Obstacles delay urgent help deliveries
PAM said obstacles include supply shortages and violent disorders around convoys that make distributions “almost impossible”.
According to the United Nations Humanitarian Agency, the movement of aid teams inside Gaza remains strongly restricted. The OCHA also indicated that around one missions planned out of three had been “hampered or decried by the Israeli authorities” between Friday and Monday, said the UN spokesman.
Consequently, many missions could not be completed, he said, noting also that strict Israeli inspections continue to considerably delay the assistance authorization at the port of Ashdod.
Visas for senior Palestinian officials blocked
The reports indicated that the United States announced last week that it would not deliver visas to the senior Palestinian leaders before high-level general meetings later this month at the UN headquarters in New York.
Which includes a conference on September 22 where the heads of state and the government should approve a political declaration adopted by leaders participating in an international conference at the end of July, approving the solution to two states.
Answering the question of a journalist on the issue, Mr. Dujarric said “the participation of a senior Palestinian delegation in the conference is essential. “”
UNRWA Charge Charge de «Scholasticide»
Philippe Lazzarini, general commissioner of the United Nations Palestine refugees, UNRWAA recruited alarms on what would have been the start of the school year for more than 600,000 children in Gaza.
“Gaza is in ruins; The same goes for his education system, “he said in a statement on Monday. “Instead of returning to school, like most children around the world, around 660,000 girls and boys in Gaza will pass through the rubble, desperate, hungry, traumatized and above all bereaved.”
The more they stay outside the school with their trauma, the more the risk they become “a lost generation, sowing the seeds for more hatred and violence,” warned the chief of UNRWA.
“The ceasefire is the only way to follow to reverse famine and the” scholastide “hitting the children of Gaza,” he said.
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