Since March 2 that Israel has blocked the entry of humanitarian aid in the Gaza Strip and UNICEF warns that access to drinking water could disappear completely.
More than one million children remain without access to essential goods, blocking humanitarian aid to extend for over a month. The scarcity of food, drinking water, shelter and medicines is having devastating consequences for the civilian population.
The number of people looking for help with the few volunteers still present on the ground is increasing. The struggle for a meal or a little drinking water is daily in a scenario marked by despair.
“We were displaced from the city of Beit Lahia, to the west of the city of Gaza. We faced a lot of difficulties to get water. Today we got water. We fought to transport the water to the tent. Sometimes it takes half an hour to bring it. When we got a drop of water to drink, we were so happy. We suffered to get water,” reports a child.
According to the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), Since March 2 that Israel has blocked the entry of humanitarian aid in the Gaza Strip, in what is already the longest period without supplies since the beginning of the conflict. Water distribution, made through cistern trucks, was drastically reduced: 16 liters per person per day, went to only six. The organization warns that, to maintain this trend, Access to drinking water may disappear completely.
Also complementary babies foods are sold out. The UN reinforces the warning to increased risk of malnutrition and disease worsening, especially among children.
Since the end of the two-month ceasefire, Israel has expanded the so-called “safety zone” in northern Gaza and the southern military offensive.
Video contradicts Israel’s version of attack on ambulances
However, images released by the NGO Crescent Red Red show an attack on an ambulance train on 23 March. The video, recovered from a mobile phone found in a common ditch where 15 volunteers would be buried, contradicts the Israeli version, which claimed that the vehicles circulated with the lights off and were considered suspicious.
One of the survivors of the attack, the paramedic Munzer Abed, witness: “The military were all over the area where we met, special forces (…) it was suddenly fired directly on us. With all that fire intensity over us, the vehicle stopped suddenly. Everything turned off. place that is seen in the video, next to the iron electricity pole. “
The UN has already appealed to a formal investigation into the attack.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been visiting a visit to the United States, where the conflict in Gaza is expected to be prominent in diplomatic talks.
