UN for Gaza Strip: The international community should be ashamed

1 out of 2 inhabitants face a catastrophic shortage of food, where famine will be a reality in a month unless urgent measures are taken, as More than 1.1 million people in the Gaza Strip are faced with a catastrophic famine situation, at the limits of famine, the highest number ever recorded by the UN, based on a detailed report of the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) published today. “The international community should be ashamed that it failed to stop the imminent famine,” UN Human Affairs chief Martin Griffiths wrote to H. In the last IPC report published in December, the World Food Programme and the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization estimated that famine is “probably” to appear by the end of May in the northern part of the Gaza Strip. They now estimate that “any moment between now and May”, if nothing is done to deal with it. The assessment is particularly critical for residents of the northern part of Gaza. “Without changes in access to humanitarian aid, the famine comes,” warns Deputy Director General of the Food and Agriculture Organization Bert Beckdoll. “It is possible that famine is already a reality in the north, but we are unable to confirm it” without access to these territories. The IPC criteria for declaring famine are not met at a technical level yet, but already “the Gazans die of hunger,” says in a statement executive director of the World Food Programme Cindy McCain. According to the organization’s estimates, one out of three children suffer from malnutrition and “acute malnutrition in children under 5 years of age progresses at a record rate”. Help with the dropper Humanitarian aid enters with the dropper into the devastated Gaza Strip. According to the non-governmental organization Oxfam, 2,874 trucks entered the enclave in February, i.e. only 20% of the daily aid received by the Gaza Strip before 7 October. According to the World Food Programme, there is a small opportunity to prevent famine. To do this “we need immediate and unrestricted access to the north. If we wait for a famine to be declared, it will be too late, thousands more people will have died,” according to Cindy McCain. “An immediate humanitarian ceasefire would allow adequate food, medicines and drinking water to enter the areas threatened by famine, says Bert Beckdoll, but the cessation of hostilities “does not seem likely in the coming days or weeks. According to the World Food Programme, to meet the basic nutritional needs, entry into Gaza is required “at least 300 trucks daily”, mainly in the north, where only nine phalangs have entered since the beginning of the year. The last 18 trucks delivered food aid last night to Gaza City. In an effort to increase humanitarian aid, air strikes have taken place, while the international community is making an effort to transfer aid by sea. However, the maritime humanitarian corridor from Cyprus does not change the data, according to Bert Beckdoll. Both air throws and sea transport “are more symbolic and are not panacea”.