JAKARTA - Spokesman for the United Nations (OCHA) Humanitarian Affairs Coordination Office Jens Laerke said on Tuesday the Gaza Strip region had experienced "the worst humanitarian situation" since the start of the war due to the blocking of humanitarian aid by Israel.
This was conveyed in response to questions about blocking humanitarian aid by Israel for more than 50 days, during a press conference at the United Nations Office in Geneva, Switzerland.
Laerke noted that humanitarian aid had not reached Gaza for 50 days, and commercial goods had not reached Gaza even longer.
"In Gaza, you can see a clear trend towards total disaster. Currently, the humanitarian situation in Gaza is perhaps the worst since the start of the war," he said, launching WAFA April 23.
Israel is known to have reimposed a total blockade on all supplies to Gaza since early March, re-launching military operations on March 18 in line with the end of the ceasefire in effect since January 19, quoted by Reuters.
Since then, Israeli attacks have killed more than 1,600 Palestinians according to Gaza's health authorities, forcing hundreds of thousands of people to flee homes as Israel seized what it called Gaza's soil buffer zone.
Israel says its blockade is aimed at suppressing the Hamas militants that control Gaza to release 59 hostages who have been detained since the October 7, 2023 attacks.
Hamas himself said he was ready to release them, but only as part of the deal that ended the war.
It is known that the latest conflict in Gaza broke out when a Palestinian militant group led by Hamas attacked Israel's southern region on October 7, 2023, killing about 1,200 people and causing 251 others to be held hostage, according to Israeli calculations.
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Israel retaliated with blockades, airstrikes and military operations in Gaza's territory.
Yesterday, Gaza's health authorities confirmed that the death toll from Palestine since the conflict broke had reached 51,266, while 116,991 people were injured. The majority of victims were women and children.
According to the same source, the death toll since Israel restarted genocide on March 18 after a two-month ceasefire had also risen to 1,783, in addition to the other 4,683 injured.
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