Gaza is dying of hunger… UNRWA launches an urgent appeal for help after the famine has spread and reached its most dangerous stage, and calls for an immediate lifting of the blockade
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) renewed its call on Monday to lift the Israeli blockade on the Gaza Strip to end the famine there.
“We’re receiving desperate messages about famine from Gaza, including from our colleagues,” the agency said in a post on X.
The UNRWA reported that “food prices have increased forty-fold,” referring to the repercussions of the ongoing blockade.
The UNRWA continued, “Meanwhile, on the outskirts of Gaza, UNRWA has enough food stored in its warehouses to cover the needs of all its residents for more than three months”.
The UNRWA agency added, “Lift the siege and allow aid to enter safely and on a large scale”.
On Sunday, UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini asserted that failure to push Israel to allow aid into Gaza constitutes complicity in the starvation of Palestinians.
Lazzarini relayed, via X, a typical message frequently received from UNRWA staff in Gaza, “I am looking for food for my children, but I can’t find anything”.
He continued, “All of this is man-made, with complete impunity for Israel”.
On Sunday, the Ministry of Health in Gaza announced that Israel’s starvation policy had killed 86 Palestinians, including 76 children, due to malnutrition.
On the same day, the government media office in Gaza warned that the Strip was on the verge of mass death, after more than 140 days of closed crossings.
