UN warns of disaster in the Gaza Strip – Diepresse.com
Israel has been blocking aid in the Gaza Strip for over two months. 75 percent of
Agricultural areas and 66 percent of the wells in the contested coastal strip are destroyed.
In view of the humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip, the UN Food Nutrition and Agriculture Organization (FAO) warns of a sophisticated famine and the threatening complete collapse of agriculture. The organization based in Rome called for immediate restoration of humanitarian approaches and the cancellation of all blockages on Monday. For more than two months, the Israeli military has no longer let aid deliveries in the Gaza Strip.
The armed forces accuse the Palestinian terrorist organization of Hamas to sell the relief supplies to the needy population at excessive prices and to pay their fighters and weapons with the income. The warning of the FAO is based on a current analysis of the so-called IPC initiative for the analysis of food crises. According to the report, the entire population of the Gaza Strip – around 2.1 million people – is affected by acute nutritional uncertainty.
« If we do not act, we violate the right to food that is a fundamental human right, » said the FAO General Director Qu Dongyu in Rome. « Every delay deepens hunger and accelerates starvation. » The United Nations’s executive director of the WFP) WEFP (WFP), Cindy McCain, said: « The international community urgently has to act in order to start the aid deliveries to Gaza again. »
Almost a quarter million people in disaster
According to the so -called Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), around 93 percent of people lived between April 1 and May 10th in sealed coastal strips under crisis conditions or worse. The initiative has a multi -stage system according to which it judges how many people and how much are affected by hunger. The highest level 5 is described with « famine-like conditions ». Around 244,000 people, around twelve percent of the population, are assigned to this category.
The IPC initiative is used by the United Nations (UN) and consists of various UN organizations and auxiliary groups. For the period until the end of September, the IPC expects that the entire population will continue to suffer from acute food shortage.
FAO warns of agriculture collapse
The FAO warns of the almost complete collapse of agriculture in Gaza. According to satellite data, around 75 percent of the acreage and over two thirds of the fountain are destroyed. A new evaluation of agricultural damage is already underway. Initial results indicated a further reduction in usable areas, according to the FAO.
The trigger of the war was the unprecedented massacre on October 7, 2023, in which Hamas terrorists and other Islamists killed around 1,200 people and dragged more than 250 more from Israel into the Gaza strip. Israel reacted to this with massive air raids and a soil offensive. According to the health authority controlled by the Hamas, several ten thousand people were killed. (APA/dpa)
