GENEVA – Pejabat kemanusiaan PBB pada Selasa memberi amaran bahawa krisis kemanusiaan di Semenanjung Gaza mencapai tahap paling kritikal sejak perang bermula, ketika penghantaran bantuan disekat selama 51 hari berturut-turut.
“Sekarang ini mungkin situasi kemanusiaan paling teruk yang pernah kita lihat sepanjang perang di Gaza,” Jens Laerke, jurucakap OCHA, memberitahu taklimat PBB di Geneva sebagai jawapan kepada soalan Anadolu.
Laerke menggariskan keadaan teruk yang dihadapi orang awam di Gaza, ketika tiada bantuan kemanusiaan memasuki kawasan itu selama lebih 50 hari – dan barangan komersial untuk (tempoh) “malah lebih lama lagi”.
“Anda boleh melihat kecenderungan yang jelas ke arah bencana total,” katanya.
Sejak 2 Mac, Israel menutup lintasan Gaza, menyekat bekalan penting daripada memasuki enklaf itu walaupun terdapat banyak laporan mengenai kebuluran di wilayah yang musnah perang itu. Tentera Israel meneruskan serangan ke atas Gaza pada 18 Mac, menghancurkan perjanjian gencatan senjata dan pertukaran tahanan pada 19 Januari.
Israel telah membunuh lebih 51,200 rakyat Palestin di enklaf itu sejak Oktober 2023, kebanyakannya wanita dan kanak-kanak.
ANADOLU, 22.4.2025
‘Worst humanitarian situation’ in Gaza as aid blockade passes 50-day mark, says UN
GENEVA – The UN humanitarian office on Tuesday warned that the humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip has reached its most critical point since the war began, as aid deliveries have been blocked for 51 consecutive days.
“Right now is probably the worst humanitarian situation we have seen throughout the war in Gaza,” Jens Laerke, spokesperson for OCHA, told a UN briefing in Geneva in response to Anadolu’s question.
Laerke underscored the dire conditions facing civilians in Gaza, as no humanitarian aid has entered the enclave for over 50 days — and commercial goods for “even longer.”
“You can see a clear tendency towards total disaster,” he said.
Since March 2, Israel has closed Gaza’s crossings, blocking essential supplies from entering the enclave despite multiple reports of famine in the war-devastated territory. The Israeli army resumed its assault on Gaza on March 18, shattering a Jan. 19 ceasefire and prisoner exchange agreement.
Israel has killed more than 51,200 Palestinians in the enclave since October 2023, most of them women and children.
ANADOLU, 22.4.2025
