The UN Palestinian Refugee Agency (UNRWA) said one in five children in Gaza are malnourished and cases increase daily.
In a statement issued on Thursday, North Current Administration Commissioner Philippe Lazzarini cited a colleague to tell him: “The people in Gaza are neither dead nor alive, they are walking bodies.”
More than 100 international aid and human rights groups have also warned of mass hunger – forcing the government to take action.
Israel controls all the entry into Gaza, he said, without siege and blames any malnutrition Hamas.
However, the United Nations warns that the level of aid entering Gaza is a “trick stream” and that the hunger crisis in the territory is “never been more terrible”.
“More than 100 people, the vast majority of whom are children, reportedly died of hunger,” Lazzarini said in a statement Thursday.
“Most of the children our team sees become thin, weak and high-risk if they are not treated in desperate need,” he said, begging Israel to “allow humanitarian partners to bring unrestricted and uninterrupted humanitarian assistance to Gaza in Gaza.”
According to Lazzarini, Arctic Line workers “disturbed more and more at work.”
On Wednesday, the World Health Organization (WHO) said a large portion of Gaza’s population was “starving to death.”
“I don’t know what you call it, except mass hunger, it’s artificial,” said the head of Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
Hanaa Almadhoun, 40, said in northern Gaza that local markets usually have no food and other supplies.
She told the BBC on WhatsApp.
She said flour is expensive and difficult to protect and people have sold “gold and personal belongings” to afford it.
When people look for “things,” mothers of three say “every day brings new challenges.”
“With my own eyes, I see kids rolling in the garbage, looking for pieces of food,” she added.
During a visit to Israeli forces on Wednesday, Israeli President Isaac Herzog insisted that his country was providing humanitarian assistance under international law.
But Gaza aid worker Tahani Shehada said people are “just trying to survive every hour”.
“Even a simple thing to cook [and] Bathing becomes a luxury. ” she said.
She added: “I have a child. He is eight months old. He doesn’t know the taste of fresh fruit.”
Israel stopped delivering aid to Gaza in early March after a two-month ceasefire. Nearly two months later, the lockdown partially eased, but the food, fuel and drug shortages worsened.
Israel and the United States have established a new aid system run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF).
According to the UN Human Rights Office, more than 1,000 Palestinians have been killed by the Israeli military while trying to obtain food aid in the past two months.
It said at least 766 of them were killed near one of the four distribution centers in GHF, operated by a U.S. private security contractor and located within the Israeli military zone.
Another 288 people were reportedly killed near the United Nations and other aid convoys.
Israel accused Hamas of inciting chaos near aid sites. It said its troops only fired warnings that they did not intentionally shoot civilians.
The United Nations is using Hamas, Gaza – operating the Ministry of Health’s “false” figures, GHF said.
Najah is 19 years old [BBC]
Najah, a 19-year-old widow who lives in a hospital in Gaza, said she was worried that she would be “shooted” if she went to aid distribution locations.
Naha told the BBC: “I hope they can take us to eat and drink. We die of hunger without doing anything. We live in tents. We are over.”
A doctor working in Gaza at the British medical charity Dr. Aseel said Gaza is not close to famine, but is already “alive.”
“My husband went there once [to an aid distribution point] Then he was shot twice, and that’s all. ” she said.
“If we are going to die of hunger, let it be. The road to aid is the road to death.”
Abu Alaa, a market seller in Gaza, said he and his children “go to bed hungry every night.”
He added: “We are not alive. We are dead. We beg the world to intervene and save us.”
Walaa Fathi, who is eight months pregnant with her third child, said Gaza people are “experienced a disaster and famine that no one can imagine”.
“I want my baby to stay in the uterus and not have to be born under these difficult circumstances,” she told Deir Al-Balah’s BBC.
