Gaza will ‘bleed to death’, warns OCHA
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – The UN humanitarian office warned Tuesday that the Gaza Strip will “bleed to death” because of the denial of humanitarian access to the Palestinian enclave.
”The recurrent denial of access of humanitarian teams to northern Gaza is preventing the needed scale-up of life-saving operations,” Olga Cherevko, a spokesperson for the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), said in a statement.
”Today was the first time that we managed to reach Al-Shifa Hospital after five days of denied and aborted missions,” she added.
”Equipment, fuel, water and food are all in very short supply,” the spokesperson said. ”The doctors told us stories today of incredible courage of people’s strength and resilience and the suffering we saw coming here is unimaginable.”
She cited a doctor in Al-Shifa Hospital as saying, “We are so alone in this world; they have forgotten us. The world must not grow numb to the suffering of the people in Gaza.”
”Unless we are enabled to with safe, meaningful and sustained access to these areas, Gaza will simply bleed out,” Cherevko said.
Israel has mounted a deadly offensive on the Gaza Strip since an attack by Hamas which Tel Aviv says killed 1,140 people. It has killed at least 25,490 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and injured 63,354, according to Palestinian health authorities.
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