If There Is Hell In The World, That's Northern Gaza

@WHO via un.news.org/Gaza

JAKARTA The UN humanitarian office said it could not send aid trucks north of Gaza because the war in the trapped enclave was raging.

"If there is hell in the world, then that's northern Gaza," said the spokesman for the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, Jens Laerke, at a weekly press conference in Geneva.

Laerke said a number of UN humanitarian aid trucks had reached the south of Gaza, but they were unable to deliver aid to the northern part of the Gaza Strip where hundreds of thousands of people still live.

Recently, a group of experts from the United Nations warned that Palestine was "on the verge of genocide" as the Israeli government continued to carry out a total siege of the Gaza Strip.

A total of 10,812 Palestinians were killed in the Gaza Strip, including 4,412 children and 2,918 women, according to Palestinian authorities.

Since the conflict escalated, nearly 1,600 Israelis have been killed and more than 5,400 others injured in Hamas attacks, according to Israeli authorities.