Famine Crisis and Destruction of Signs of Life in Gaza

The UN says that the flour needed by Gaza bakeries will run out within a week, agencies have reduced food distribution to families by half, markets are empty of most vegetables, and many aid workers cannot operate due to the Israeli regime's bombing.

For 4 weeks, the Israeli regime has blocked all sources of food, fuel, medicine and other resources for the population of more than 2 million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, and this is the longest siege so far in the regime's 18-month war in Gaza, which shows no signs of ending.

Aid workers are mobilizing resources are warning of a catastrophic increase in extreme hunger and malnutrition.

In this regard, Jens Laerke, spokesman for the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, announced that Israel's actions in the Gaza Strip bear the hallmarks of barbaric crimes.

The UN official said during a press conference in Geneva: "In Gaza, we are witnessing a blatant disregard for life and human dignity. With the Israeli army's daily orders to evacuate various areas of Gaza and the displacement of Palestinians, the space available in the strip to accommodate refugees is very small.

He added: "Everything in Gaza is running out, including food, time and life."

Michael Fakhri, the UN Special Rapporteur on Food, also stated in an interview with Al Jazeera: "Israel continues to use hunger as a weapon against civilians in the Gaza Strip, and its policies are causing the deaths of thousands of children."

He emphasized: "The Israeli apartheid regime deprives the Palestinians of their human rights and continues to justify its inhumane actions against these people. We demand that Israel be prosecuted for these policies and that sanctions be imposed against it.

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights also announced in a statement that Israel must immediately end the siege of Gaza and refrain from any action that leads to the displacement of the people of Gaza.

The UN agency stated: Since the resumption of its attacks on Gaza on March 18, Israel has issued 10 forced evacuation orders, covering large areas throughout the Gaza Strip. According to UN conventions, the forcible transfer of the population of an area is a clear violation of international humanitarian law and is a crime under international law.

Bloody Eid al-Fitr

While the people of Arab countries are celebrating Eid al-Fitr today, the Palestinian people in Gaza began another bloody day, and dozens of other civilians were martyred and injured from the early hours of this morning.

In this regard, the UN announced that 830 Palestinians were killed martyred in the Gaza Strip from March 18 to 25, 174 of whom were women and 322 children, in addition to 1,787 others who suffered various injuries.

At a press conference in Geneva, Switzerland, the UN Special Representative for Women in Palestine, Maryse Guymon, warned of the dire consequences of this war on the women and girls of Gaza, and focused on the statistics and details of the human casualties in the first 8 days of the resumption of the genocidal war on the Gaza Strip by the Zionist regime.

After announcing the figures, she added: This means the killing martyrdom of 21 women and more than 40 children every day, indicating that women and children comprise about 60 percent of the victims of the recent attacks in the Gaza Strip.

Meanwhile, Shaima al-Obeidi, head of the media for the international charity "Save the Children Fund", spoke to CNN about the critical conditions in Gaza.

She said: Families in northern Gaza have no access to food! There is no water! A mother said that she would feed her child animal food! She had to do this or her child would die of starvation! Now that the war has resumed, children are dying in droves. I was very, very scared and terrified. I had never worked in such conditions before!