More than a hundred NGOs ask for a stop on fire because Gaza is “being consumed” of hunger
More than a hundred international and Palestinian organizations on Wednesday asked for a high immediate and permanent fire and lift all the restrictions of access to the Gaza Strip, as its staff, as well as the Gazatí population, “is being consumed” due to hunger.
“While the siege of the Israeli government kills the population of Gaza, humanitarian workers are joining the tails to receive food, risking being shot only to be able to feed their families,” the NGOs point out, when two months are completed that the distribution of aid begins through the Humanitarian Foundation of Gaza, the group backed by the United States and Israel Palestine
Organizations denounce the painful situation in which the entire population in Gaza is located, including humanitarian workers dedicated to attending it. “With totally exhausted supplies, humanitarian organizations are seeing how their own colleagues and partners are consumed before their eyes,” reads the joint statement signed by 109 organizations, including Amnesty International, Caritas, World Physicians or doctors without borders.
These organizations want to give the alarm and ask governments to act: “open all the terrestrial border steps; restore the complete flow of food, drinking water, medical supplies, shelter and fuel items through a mechanism based on principles and directed by the United Nations; put an end to the siege and agree on a high fire right now,” they ask. And they remember that until June 13 the UN has confirmed that 875 Palestinians have died while looking for food -201 on the help routes and the rest at the distribution points -and thousands have been injured.
Less than thirty media per day trucks distribute help in Gaza, “on the outskirts of Gaza, in stores and even within Gaza herself, tons of food, drinking water, medical supplies, shelters for shelters and fuel remain intact, since humanitarian organizations cannot access them or distribute them.” This has caused “record rates of acute malnutrition”, especially in older children, and the spread of diseases such as acute aqueous diarrhea. “The markets are empty, the waste accumulates and adults collapse in the streets through hunger and dehydration,” they denounce in the joint statement.
“It is time to take decisive measures: to demand a high immediate and permanent fire; raise all bureaucratic and administrative restrictions; open all the terrestrial border steps; guarantee access to all people throughout Gaza; reject the distribution models controlled by the army; restore a humanitarian response based on principles and directed by the United Nations, and continue to finance impartial and principles humanitarian organizations, based on principles. demand. (EFE)
