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The famine has mostly avoided in Loop as Arise of aid Enter the territory during a Fragile pressuresThe United Nations Humanitarian Chief said Sunday. But he warned that the threat could quickly return if the truce collapses.
Tom Fletcher spoke with Associated Press after a two -day visit to Gaza, where hundreds of trucks that have humanitarian aid have arrived every day since the stop the fire on January 19.
“The threat of famine, I think, is greatly avoided,” Fletcher said in Cairo. “These levels of starvation are below where they were before the fire.”
He spoke as worries grow on whether the high fire can be extended and the conversations are intended to start in their second most difficult phase. The first six -week phase is halfway.
As part of the agreement, Israel said it would allow 600 Gaza aid trucks every day, an important increase after months of help officials who express frustration about delays and insecurity Advance both the entry and the distribution of food, medicines and other poorly necessary items.
The UN Humanitarian Office has said that more than 12,600 aid trucks have entered Gaza since the high fire entered into force.
Fletcher urged Hamas, who quickly reaffirmed his control of the territory in the hours after the high fire entered into force, and Israel to follow the agreement that has “saved so many lives.”
“The conditions are still terrible, and people are still hungry,” he said. “If the high fire falls, if the high fire breaks, then very quickly those conditions (such as famine) will return again.”
The internationally recognized mortality threshold for famine is Two or more deaths per day for every 10,000 people.
For months before the high the current fire, the food security monitors, UN officials and others had been Possible famine warning In parts of devastated Gaza, especially the north, which had been largely isolated since the first weeks of the 16 -month war. Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians have been able to return to the north under the high fire.
“We can’t … sit and let these people starve”, Cindy McCainThe American chief of the UN World Food Program told CBS in December. The Biden administration repeatedly urged Israel to allow more aid deliveries and warned that not doing could trigger restrictions from the United States in military support.
Fletcher said that more medical and doctors are needed for the territory of more than 2 million people, most of them displaced, and expressed concern about disease outbreaks due to the lack of basic health supplies. He also asked to expand the delivery of tents and other shelters to those who have returned to the areas of their home, as winter continues.
“We must obtain tens of thousands of tents very quickly, so that people who move, particularly return to the north, can take refuge from these conditions,” he said.
Fletcher entered the Palestinian territory through the crossing of Erez between Israel and Northern Gaza, where he said he drove through “bombarded, flattened and sprayed” areas.
“You can’t see the difference between a school, a hospital or a home,” he said over the north.
He said he saw people trying to find where their homes had been and collecting the bodies of the loved ones of the debris. He also saw dogs looking for corpses in the rubble.
“It’s a horror movie. It’s a horror show,” he said. “You break your heart over and over again. You drive by miles and miles and miles, and this is all you see.”
Fletcher acknowledged that some Palestinians have been angry with the international community during the war and his response.
“There was despair and anger. And I can understand anger in the world that this has happened to them,” he said. “But there was also a sense of challenge too. People said: ‘We will return to our homes. We will return to the places we have lived for generations, and rebuild'”.
