Dujarric calls for need to deliver aid on large scale in Gaza Strip

SANAA, Aug. 19 (YPA) – UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric said that humanitarian workers must be enabled to deliver humanitarian aid on a large scale in the Gaza Strip.

In the daily press conference at the organization’s headquarters in Geneva, Dujarric said “To avoid such deaths due to Israeli starvation, humanitarian workers must be able to deliver food on a large and sustained scale through all available crossings and roads to reach the Strip’s 2.1 million residents, half of whom are children.”

“We are concerned by the Israeli authorities’ announcement of an imminent expansion of their military activities in Gaza City,” he added, according to the UN News website.

Dujarric stressed that “expanding operations to occupy the entire Gaza City will lead to the displacement of thousands of people once again to an overcrowded area in the southern Gaza Strip, which lacks the most basic infrastructure and services, including food, water, and medical services.”