UN official: The situation in Gaza is like horrors of Doomsday

SANAA, April 30 (YPA) – A UN official warned, on Wednesday, of the dire situation in Gaza, as the specter of famine has returned to haunt the Palestinians amid a humanitarian crisis that has entered its most dangerous phase as a result of the Israeli war on the Strip.

Jonathan Fowler, Director of Communications for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), pointed out in a press interview that food supplies have run out in the Gaza Strip due to Israel’s closure of all crossings, using food as a weapon in its war of extermination for 19 months.

Fowler said, “It is difficult to find words to describe the current situation in Gaza. It is similar to the horrors of Doomsday and lacks the most basic levels of humanity.”

The UN official described the stifling Israeli blockade of the Strip and the international community’s failure to address it as a “true scandal.”

He considered that the Palestinian Strip is going through the worst phase of the humanitarian crisis it has witnessed since the beginning of the Israeli war of extermination, indicating that the situation in Gaza “is not complicated, but rather very clear,” according to the Palestinian News Agency, WAFA.

He also pointed out that it is natural for Palestinians in the Strip to not find anything to eat as a result of Israel preventing the arrival of food aid and supplies for more than 50 days.

The UN official stressed that the famine in Gaza is “entirely an Israeli political decision.”

“If the crossings are opened for the entry of aid, it will arrive, but Israel is imposing a stifling siege that does not allow anything to pass,” he added, noting that all international calls to lift the siege have not received any response.