Cairo (APP) – famine mostly has been tired of Gaza As a Increase in aid. One enters the area during a Delicate Seas FireThe UN -friendly chief said on Sunday. But he warned that if the reconciliation was eliminated, the danger could be returned rapidly.
Tom Fletcher spoke to the Associated Press after a two -day visit to Gaza, where hundreds of trucks receiving humanitarian aid have arrived every day after the ceasefire began on January 19.
“I think the risk of famine has been widely avoided,” Fletcher said in Cairo. “The levels of hunger are few from where they were before the ceasefire.”
He raised concerns that the ceasefire could be increased and the dialogue was to start from the second phase. The first step of six weeks is half way.
As part of the agreement, Israel said it would allow 600 relief trucks in Gaza every day, which is a significant increase after expressing frustration after aid officials. Insecurity Homiting both the entry and distribution of food, medicine and other badly desired items.
The UN Humanitarian Office has said that more than 12,600 relief trucks have entered Gaza since the influence of the ceasefire.
Fletcher called on both Hamas, who immediately re -opened its control over the area after the influence of the ceasefire, and Israel remained on a deal that “saved a lot of lives”.
“Things are still terrible, and people are still hungry,” he said. “If the ceasefire falls, if the ceasefire breaks down, they will soon (like a famine) will come back.”
For famine is the doorstep of internationally recognized deaths Two or more deaths in 10,000 people a day.
For months before the current ceasefire, there were food security monitors, UN officials and others A warning of potential famine In some parts of the devastating Gaza, especially the North, which was largely isolated from the early weeks of the 16 -month war. Millions of Palestinians can return to the north under ceasefire.
“We can’t do and allow only those people to be put into disrepair,” Cindy McCain, the US head of the United Nations World Food Program, told the CBS in December. The Biden administration has repeatedly called on Israel to allow further aid and warned that failure to do so could mobilize US sanctions on military assistance.
Fletcher said more than 2 million people needed more food and medical equipment for the area, most of them were displaced, and about the spread of the disease due to lack of basic health supply. Expressed concerns. He also demanded to promote the supply of tents and other shelters that continues in the winter, returning to their hometowns.
He said, “We must get tens of thousands of tents, so that those who are backing back, especially returning to the north, are able to seek refuge from these situations.”
Fletcher entered the Palestinian territory through the Arab crossing between Israel and northern Gaza, where he said he was passing through areas “out of bombing, roaming and rotating”.
“You can’t see the difference between a school or a hospital or home,” he said about the north. “
He said he saw people trying to find where their homes were and collect the bodies of loved ones from the rubble. He saw that the dogs were also looking for bodies in the rubble.
“This is a horror movie. This is an horror show, “he said.” It breaks your heart again and again. You drive to mail and mail and mail distance, and all of you are watching. “
Fletcher acknowledged that some Palestinians were angry with the international community over its response and its response.
“There was frustration and anger. And I can understand the anger of the world that this has happened to them. “But at the same time there was a sense of denial. People were saying, ‘We will go back to our homes. We will go back to the places where we live for generations, and we will rebuild. ‘
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