More than 100 humanitarian groups warn of mass starvation in Gaza

More than 100 International Relief Organization and human rights groups warn of collective hunger in Gaza and pressure governments to take action.

Médecins sans Frontières (MSF), saved children and Oxfam from among the signatories on a joint statement that their colleagues and the people who serve them “are lost”.

Israel, which controls the entry of all supplies in the region, refused to statement and accuse them of “providing Hamas’s propaganda service.”

Their warning came at a time when the Hamas Ministry of Health in Gaza said that 10 other Palestinians have passed away as a result of malnutrition in the past 24 hours.

This brings the number of these deaths throughout Gaza from Sunday to 43, according to the ministry.

The United Nations stated that hospitals have recognized people in a state of extreme fatigue caused by food shortages, and that it is said that others are collapsing in the streets.

“Since the siege of the Israeli government is destroying the people of Gaza, relief workers are now joining the same food lines, and they are shot only to feed their families,” 109 humanitarian organizations said in the statement published on Wednesday.

“With the completely exhausted supplies, humanitarian organizations are witnessing their colleagues and partners who are lost in front of their eyes.”

Israel imposed a total portion of the delivery of aid to Gaza at the beginning of March and resumed its military attack against Hamas after two weeks, which led to a two -month ceasefire. She said she wanted to pressure the armed group to release the remaining Israeli hostages.

Although the siege decreased in part after nearly two months, amid warnings of famine waving on the horizon of international experts, the lack of food, medicine and fuel has worsened.

Humanitarian organizations have warned that the markets accumulate, and adults spread in the streets of hunger and drought.

“The relief factor that provides psychological and social support spoke about the devastating effect on children:” Children tell their parents that they want to go to heaven, because the sky is at least food. “

The World Health Organization said that its assessments indicate that a quarter of the population faces famine -like conditions, and that nearly 100,000 women and children suffer from acute malnutrition and need treatment as soon as possible.

Dr. Ahmed Al -Fara, head of pediatrics at Nasser Hospital in the southern city of Khan Yunis, told the BBC that there was no food available for three days.

He said that the children come to his unit going through varying degrees of hunger.

He added that some were subjected to malnutrition and died in the hospital’s care. Others came with separate health problems that prevented the nutrients from being absorbed by their bodies.

“We were afraid to reach this critical point – and now we have,” he said.

The lack of basic supplies caused the high prices in the local markets and left most families unable to buy anything.

A Gaza resident said: “It is a common matter – the prices are burning.” “Every day we need 300 shekels ($ 90; 66.50 pounds) for flour.”

Humanitarian organizations have also noted that the United Nations says they have recorded the killing by the Israeli army for more than 1050 Palestinians have been trying to get food since May 27- the day after the mechanism of distributing controversial aid managed by the United States-backed Gaza.

According to the United Nations Office for Human Rights, 766 people were killed near the four relief sites in GHF, which are located inside the Israeli military areas and managed by US Special Security Contractors. 288 people were killed near the United Nations and other aid convoys.

The Israeli army says that its forces deployed near GHF sites only fired warning footage and that they do not intentionally shoot civilians, while GHF says that the United Nations is using “wrong and misleading” figures from the Ministry of Health in Gaza.

Humanitarian organizations also said that all Gaza population have been almost displaced and are now limited to less than 12 % of the lands not covered by Israeli evacuation orders or within the Israeli military areas, which makes the aid operations uninterrupted.

They said only the average of 28 charges of aid is distributed in Gaza every day.

“Immediately outside Gaza, in warehouses – and even inside Gaza itself – tons of food, clean water, medical supplies, shelter tools and fuel sitting without the humanitarian organizations stipulated in or delivered humanitarian organizations.”

The United Nations says that, as the occupied authority, has a commitment under international law to ensure humanitarian aid to all the needy population.

Israel insists that it acts according to international law and facilitates the entry of aid while ensuring that it does not reach Hamas.

He recently acknowledged that there was a significant decrease in supplies that reach the Palestinians, but blamed the United Nations agencies.

The Israeli military body, which coordinates aid to Gaza, wrote on Monday that nearly 4,500 loads that have entered Gaza over the past two months, including 2,500 tons of children’s food and high -calorie food for children.

Also published drones showing what he said was some of 950 trucks of aid awaiting collection by the United Nations and other international organizations on the side of Ghazan from Karim Shalom and Zikim crossings.

“The bottleneck is still the main obstacle to maintaining a fixed flow of humanitarian aid in the Gaza Strip,” said Kogat.

The United Nations has repeatedly said it was struggling to obtain an Israeli permission to collect the supplies received with the Gazan drivers from inside and transported through the military areas.

Continuous hostilities, badly damaged methods, and severe fuel shortages exacerbated problems. Criminal looting by armed gangs has also been suspended operations at times.

The United Nations said that a big problem in recent weeks was struggling to obtain obligations from the Israeli army that the desperate Palestinians will not be killed while trying to collect aid from its convoys.

“In many cases in which Israel is allowed by the United Nations teams to collect supplies from closed vehicles near Gaza crossings, civilians who approach these trucks are exposed despite repeated assurances that the forces will not participate or have been present,” United Nations spokesman Stephen Dujarric said on Tuesday.

“It cannot be emphasized that this unacceptable style is the opposite of what it should seem to facilitate humanitarian processes. No one should absolutely not risk his life for food.”

Humanitarian organizations said that they “cannot continue to hope that the current arrangements will work” and that the time has come for governments to “make decisive measures.”

“A request for immediate and permanent ceasefire; lift all bureaucratic and administrative restrictions; open all land crossings; ensure that everyone is reached throughout Gaza; rejected the distribution models controlled by the military; restoring an initial and non -leading humanitarian response and continuing to finance the initial humanitarian organizations and identity.”

They added: “Countries must follow concrete measures to end the siege, such as stopping the transfer of weapons and ammunition.”

The Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that it had categorically rejected the statement, accusing organizations “the use of conversation points in Hamas.”

“These organizations serve Hamas’s propaganda, using their numbers and justify their horrors,” he added.

“Instead of challenging the terrorist organization, they embrace it as their own.”

The ministry has also claimed that they were “hurting” opportunities for the ceasefire and new hostage, which Israel and Hamas are negotiating with indirect talks in Qatar.

The Israeli army launched a campaign in Gaza in response to the Hamas -led attack on southern Israel on October 7, 2023, where about 1,200 people were killed and 251 others took hostage.

At least 59,219 people have been killed in Gaza since then, according to the Hamas Ministry of Health in the region.