Warning about the spread of famine and the outbreak of polio in Gaza

Eviralnews,, following the continuation and intensification of the occupation regime's all-round siege against the people of the Gaza Strip and the spread of the crisis of hunger and famine in this strip, “Ismail Al-Thawabateh”, the Director General of the Government Information Office in the Gaza Strip, announced that the famine and hunger in the Gaza Strip The besieged Gaza Strip, due to the occupation regime preventing the entry of humanitarian aid and issuing orders to evacuate several areas within the framework of this regime's policy to displace the people of Gaza and kill them, has greatly increased, leading to an increase in the number of martyrs and wounded on a daily basis. .

The spread of famine and hunger in Gaza

In a conversation with Al Jazeera, this government official in the Gaza Strip stated that the Gaza and North provinces have suffered the most; Because the occupying army has intensified the siege against this area.

The General Administration of Civil Defense of Gaza, in turn, announced that the policy of forced displacement and killings against the people of Gaza by the occupying forces in different areas makes the work of civil teams extremely difficult and prevents these teams from reaching the besieged areas. For this reason, a large number of people in Gaza, especially the wounded and sick, die due to the lack of aid.

The Gaza Civil Defense Department added: The Israeli occupation has started a systematic policy to displace the people of Gaza under the threat of death, which has led to the martyrdom and wounding of hundreds of civilians in the past days.

This institution called on the international community, the United Nations, human rights organizations and children's rights organizations to take serious action to confront this criminal policy of the Israeli regime.

Suspension of UN humanitarian activities in Gaza

On the other hand, in the past few days, the Israeli regime has ordered the evacuation of several areas in Gaza, which was unprecedented since the beginning of the war. This issue has led to a sharp decrease in humanitarian areas and the absence of safe areas, and has prohibited the United Nations and aid organizations from carrying out any humanitarian activities.

Humanitarian agencies reported that the densely populated Gaza Strip has been reduced to ruins, with its population of more than 2.3 million displaced several times and facing severe shortages of food and medicine.

A senior UN official reported that the organization's humanitarian aid operation in the Gaza Strip was suspended on Monday after Israel issued a new evacuation order in the Deir al-Balah area in the central Gaza Strip.

This happened when the United Nations was preparing to start a campaign to inject polio vaccine to about 640 thousand children in the Gaza Strip.

The Bloomberg website reported, citing a UN official, that after Israel ordered the forced evacuation of the Deir al-Balah area, which was the only area where the UN coordinated most of its operations and was almost a safe zone, humanitarian activities in Gaza have been suspended. is

This source emphasized that although the United Nations has not issued an official statement regarding the suspension of its humanitarian activities in the Gaza Strip, it is practically unable to send aid or continue relief operations in this strip, and this is the first time that the humanitarian operations of the United Nations have been completely stopped. will be

Warning about the outbreak of polio among children in Gaza

Also, two officials of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) announced that the situation in the Gaza Strip is catastrophic and that people are trapped in a very small area. Meanwhile, during the past two weeks, mandatory evacuation orders have been issued throughout the Gaza Strip by the Israeli army.

Louise Wateridge, UNRWA's spokesperson in Gaza, and Wissam Rouz, UNRWA's first deputy field director, held a media conference about the forced displacement of the people of Gaza and the tightening of the siege against them.

The spokesperson of UNRWA said in this meeting that hundreds of thousands of people are forced to move from one place to another in search of safe shelter and we see mothers and children who are forced to move their belongings. Without knowing where they want to go.

He added: There is no safe place in the Gaza Strip and people have nowhere to go and access to humanitarian resources is very limited. Because during these forced displacements, humanitarian activities are also stopped.

The first deputy field director of UNRWA, in turn, said: the series of evacuation orders issued by the Israeli army has limited the so-called humanitarian zone to only 11% of the total area of ​​the Gaza Strip; A place full of sand dunes and many people are trapped there.

He warned about the spread of polio among children in Gaza and announced: In the shadow of the collapse of the health system in Gaza, the very poor conditions of water and sewage, severe malnutrition and severe mental pressure, stress and anxiety, the immune system of children in Gaza is severely weakened and symptoms There is an outbreak of polio among them.

Hossam Abu Sofia, the director of Kamal Adwan Hospital in the north of the Gaza Strip, warned about the spread of polio in all areas of the north of Gaza and stated that due to the lack of vaccination of children, all existing factors contribute to the spread of the polio virus in the Gaza Strip. And we are facing a major health disaster.

The head of Kamal Adwan Hospital added: The occupying regime also deliberately prevents the entry of drinking water and healthy and clean food into the Gaza Strip, which is the cause of the spread of the polio virus. All factors in the absence of vaccination contribute to the spread of the polio virus, and the occupying enemy has deprived the children of the Gaza Strip from four rounds of vaccination.

Based on this, 1.7 million Palestinians have contracted infectious diseases as a result of displacement in the Gaza Strip, and more than 71,000 cases of viral hepatitis have been registered, and 3,500 children are at risk of death due to immune deficiency.

This is while last week, UNRWA announced the registration of the first case of polio in Gaza in the last 25 years.

According to UNRWA, the World Health Organization has confirmed that a 10-month-old baby in Gaza was paralyzed after contracting the polio virus.

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