2023-11-17 12:17:33
November 17, 2023
Baghdad/Al-Masala Al-Hadath: The Director of Media at the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Refugees (UNRWA), Juliet Touma, said today, Friday, that there is destruction in Gaza, “as if an earthquake had struck it, but it was man-made, and it could have been completely avoided.”
Touma pointed out in a statement to reporters that the residents of Gaza have been living in hell for 6 weeks, saying: “Communication services are currently cut off in Gaza for the fourth time since October 7, stressing the inability to coordinate and distribute humanitarian aid as a result.”
She pointed out the displacement of a large number of Palestinians, and that the recent displacement is the largest since 1948. She said: “People are forced to migrate en masse before our eyes, and while some recall their traumas in the past, others witness the traumas of their ancestors.”
She added: “The northern, southern and central regions of Gaza are not considered safe. There is no safe place in Gaza, and 103 United Nations employees who had no connection to this conflict lost their lives.”
For her part, the official of the Regional Media Unit at the World Food Programme, Abeer Atifa, who was next to Touma, said: “The population will be at risk of starvation due to overcrowding and unhealthy living conditions in shelters, as the amount of aid that entered Gaza only meets 10 % of food needs,” stressing that “the entire people of Gaza are in need of food aid.”
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