![]() ![]() ![]() As a last resort, people are consuming brackish water from agricultural wells, triggering serious concerns over the spread of waterborne diseases. People across Gaza have severely limited access to clean drinking water.There is some water available in local shops, but rations are still down to one litre of water per person per day for the UNRWA teams in the Rafah logistics base (to cover drinking and all other needs).There are not enough body-bags for the dead in Gaza. Over 160,000 IDPs were sheltering in 57 UNRWA premises. UNRWA is no longer able to assist or protect them. Despite the Israeli Forces’ evacuation order, an unknown number of IDPs remain in UNRWA schools in Gaza city and the North.Some 600,000 Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) are in the Middle Area, Khan Yunis and Rafah, of those, nearly 400,000 are in UNRWA facilities - much exceeding our capacity to assist in any meaningful way, including with space in our shelters, food, water or psychological support. Over one million people – almost half the total population of Gaza - have been displaced.Since violence escalated between Israel and the occupied Palestinian territory last Saturday, there have also been reports of clashes on the border between Israel and south Lebanon, resulting in casualties among civilians. There are severe shortages of specialized medical doctors and health workers, and medicines and medical equipment. Lebanon’s health system has been crippled as a result of an economic crisis, the Beirut port blast that occurred in August 2020, and the additional burden of the Syrian refugee crisis. The Lebanese Ministry of Health is in the process of identifying the referral hospitals that will receive these vital supplies. Two shipments arrived in Beirut on Monday from WHO’s logistics hub in Dubai, and include enough surgical and trauma medicines and supplies to meet the needs of 800 to 1000 injured patients. The World Health Organization ( WHO) has rushed critical medical supplies to Lebanon in order to be ready to respond to any potential health cris is there. ![]() …(Those are) the messages I'll be taking to the region about biased in favour of one or the other, that biased in favour of humanity.” “ History is watching to see if the consequences of this war are going to be generationally bad or if there are going to be ways in which swiftly that can be rebuilt, some kind of comity or neighbourliness between those two tragic peoples. Griffiths reiterated the need for humanity to prevail. But that act alone lit a fire, which can only be put out with the release of those hostages.”Īmid ongoing airstrikes in Gaza and concerns over a regional escalation of the conflict - especially on the northern border with Lebanon - Mr. Of course, there's a history between Palestinian people and the Israeli people, and I'm not denying any of that. “This war was started by taking those hostages. Hostage crisisĪmong the key issues facing diplomats is securing the release of a reported 199 Israeli hostages, seized during the Hamas raid, the UN emergency relief chief continued. The UN Security Council is due to meet in emergency session later on Monday in New York to discuss different resolutions from Council members related to the fast-moving crisis in and around Gaza. “Make sure they get the aid they need and make sure that there are corridors which allow them some respite from the relentless attacks that are happening upon them.” “Don't attack civilian infrastructure, protect civilians when they move,” the UN official insisted. “The United States, the United Kingdom, the European Union and the Arab world all have obligations” to ensure that the lives of civilians are protected and the rules of war observed. “It's all Member States who have obligations…not just those in the region” to defuse the worst Israeli-Palestinian conflagration in decades, Mr. The top UN aid official was speaking before heading to the Middle East, “trying to help, working with diplomats from all countries” to secure aid access and de-escalate the tinderbox situation, which UN Secretary-General described on Sunday as being on the “verge of the abyss”. ![]()
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