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Join on Telegram Rabat – The UN’s Humanitarian Coordinator for the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Muhannad Hadi, has pointed directly to Israeli evacuation orders as the cause of the displacement of 90% of people in Gaza.
While Israel has presented these evacuation orders as humanitarian acts, Hadi pointed out that they force Gazan families to flee over and over, “often under fire and with the few belongings they can carry with them, into an ever-shrinking area that is crowded and unsafe.”
“Mass evacuations in Gaza choke survival and severely constrain aid operations,” the top UN official in the region stated.
Over 12 evacuation orders in August alone have led to increasing suffering and displacement of citizens of Gaza, he highlighted.
UN Spokesperson Stephane Dujarric has also pointed directly to the Israeli policy of displacement as not just a threat to the lives of Gazans, but also to the safety of UN personnel and aid organizations in the area.
Speaking on Thursday, Dujarric highlighted as an example the UN’s World Food Program, which lost access to their warehouse in the heart of the city of Deir al-Balah in central Gaza.
This was “the third and last operational warehouse in Gaza’s middle area,” he highlighted, detailing that previously “five community kitchens operated by WFP have also been evacuated.”
Structural Israeli attacks
Israel’s flagrant attacks on key infrastructure, healthcare facilities and aid organizations in the besieged Gaza strip appear to be achieving Israeli goals of spreading hunger and disease in the world’s “largest open-air prison.”
The first cases of Polio were detected in Gaza this week, for the first time in 25 years. International organizations have highlighted the urgent need to vaccinate especially the 50,000 babies born since the Israeli attack on Gaza.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has pointed to the Polio outbreak as an emergency severe enough to warrant a cease-fire.
UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini today highlighted the WHO’s confirming that a 10-month-old baby in #Gaza is now paralyzed due to Polio.
“Polio will not make the distinction between Palestinian & Israeli children.
Delaying a humanitarian pause will increase the risk of spread among children,” Lazzarini wrote on X. “It is not enough to bring the vaccines into Gaza + protect the cold chain. To have an impact, the vaccines must end up in the mouths of every child under the age of 10.”
