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UN denounces Israeli attacks on refugee sites in southern Gaza

UN denounces Israeli attacks on refugee sites in southern Gaza
Photo: UNRWA

October 17 |

The United Nations (UN) confirmed Tuesday that the occupation army’s air force has continued to attack the south of the Gaza Strip, just where it had demanded that refugees fleeing Tel Aviv’s previous incursions move to.

The attacks, denounced by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), have taken place over the town of Khan Yunis, despite having ordered civilians to move to that part of the Palestinian enclave, where more than 600,000 people have arrived in recent days.

According to UNRWA, the most serious problem at the moment is the lack of water and warned that “people will start dying without it”.

In this regard, UNRWA points out that the last seawater desalination plant operating in Gaza has stopped operating, increasing the risk of dehydration and disease as Palestinians begin to drink water unfit for human consumption.

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At the same time, the director of the World Health Organization (WHO) office for the Eastern Mediterranean, Ahmed al Mandhari, assured that UN humanitarian aid has been ready in Egypt for more than 72 hours awaiting distribution to the Gaza Strip and Israeli authorization.

According to al Mandhari, “We have repeatedly called for humanitarian access to the Gaza Strip through the Rafah border crossing from Egypt.” Gaza will become a “real catastrophe,” al Mandhari warned, as its water, electricity and fuel supplies will run out in less than 24 hours.

Meanwhile, UN World Food Program representative Abeer Etefa also called for “unimpeded access and a safe corridor for urgently needed humanitarian supplies” in Gaza.

Etefa stated that “we have heard from Egypt that the security situation does not allow convoys to move.”

International humanitarian organizations continue to stockpile essential supplies for the people of the Gaza Strip in Egypt as they wait for Egyptian authorities to authorize the opening of the Rafah crossing, the only one that allows access to the Palestinian territory and which is not controlled by Israel.

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The agency’s food aid shipments are at an Egyptian location near the Gaza border and are ready to be taken there as soon as the agency receives the necessary permits, he added.

The situation in the Gaza Strip is worsening just as Israel is preparing to launch a ground offensive, for which no date has been set but which seems increasingly imminent.

In fact, U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin ordered the preparation of 2,000 troops and several units with rapid deployment capability in the Middle East in case of need, the Pentagon said in a statement.

In addition, Austin approved the extension of the stay in the area of the Gerald R.Ford aircraft carrier strike group, within the sixth operations fleet of the U.S. naval forces.

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