Vital aid routes to northern Gaza have been cut off and no food aid has flowed there since October 1. speak UN Deputy Spokesperson Farhan Haq, citing information from the World Food Program (WFP).
He added that the main entry points into the north were closed and would become inaccessible if the current escalation continued.
WFP distributed the last remaining food in the North to partners and kitchens for newly displaced families, but this was only enough to last two weeks.
Many sites have been forced to close and others are at risk of closure if the conflict continues on this scale.
‘At breaking point’
Mr. Haq said the situation in the South is also “at a critical level”. No food distribution is taking place, while bakeries are struggling to secure flour supplies, leaving them at risk of closing any day.
“Aid to Gaza is at its lowest level in months. No one received food parcels this month due to limited access to aid supplies,” he said.
Despite the challenges, humanitarian organizations are responding as best they can. United Nations agency supporting Palestinian refugees, UNRWAand partners are distributing bread, pre-cooked or ready-to-eat meals, and flour in and out of designated shelters.
On Thursday, an assessment team from the United Nations’ humanitarian affairs office, OCHAvisited the Al Rufaida school shelter, in Deir al Balah, where an Israeli airstrike killed several people.
They recorded the destruction or damage of 3 classrooms, 20 tents, 5 bathrooms, 3 water tanks and the belongings of more than 60 families.
The family was forced to flee
United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said sudden relocation orders in the North were once again affecting tens of thousands of vulnerable boys and girls. OCHA warns that most of the displacement is currently taking place in the north, where there are no tents to support newly displaced families.
The latest developments in North Gaza province have forced the suspension of protection services, the closure of malnutrition treatment services and the closure of five temporary learning spaces, affecting hundreds of children, in as Kamal Adwan Hospital is witnessing a series of trauma cases.
A child receives a polio vaccine in Gaza.
Concerns about polio vaccination
United Nations humanitarian agencies continue to warn that the situation for civilians is worsening as the Israeli army continues its offensive into the north, where some 400,000 people face evacuation orders.
“Over the past week, the Israeli military has stepped up operations in northern Gaza, further cutting off the area from the rest of the Gaza Strip,” said Ravina Shamdasani, spokesperson for the United Nations human rights office. and endangering the lives of civilians in the area.” , OHCHR.
“Intense attacks, shelling, helicopter gunships and ground incursions have occurred in recent days, attacking residential buildings and groups of people, causing many casualties and one again, causing mass displacement of Palestinians in the area.”
As United Nations aid agencies and partners prepare to launch the second phase of the mass polio vaccination campaign next week, the World Health Organization (WHO) Representing the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Dr. Rik Peeperkorn, highlighted the impact of the lack of regular humanitarian access to the enclave and the north in particular.
“Many hospitals in the North are running out of fuel. Most humanitarian and UN missions do not take place in the north. They are running out of some specific medical supplies and we are in this crisis for a year now,” Dr. Peeperkorn said, confirming that three relief missions in northern Wadi Gaza have Cannot be done this week. “So we ask again… that these humanitarian missions in the north, wherever, in the south, they need to be carried out.”
