The population of Gaza is reduced to fighting to obtain food and water, says a representative of the ochha
Olga Cherevko, a representative of the United Nations Office for Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), said on Friday during a videoconference made in the city of Gaza that the population of the Palestinian enclave was now reduced to fight to obtain food and water. « Food stocks are now almost exhausted ”she said. “Community canteens have started to close and more and more people suffer from hunger”according to her, evoking information reporting on children and other vulnerable people due to malnutrition.
Olga Cherevko reports that hungry inhabitants search the heaps of trash in search of “Anything that could help them survive”: “I see children, elderly people searching these cure of garbage, not only to find something to make fire, but also to eat daily. »» “The blockade is deadly” et “Access to water also becomes impossible”warns the manager, who has been working in Gaza for ten years. She interrupts her intervention to explain that at the very moment when she speaks to the press “Just below [du] People building are fighting to have water ”. “A tanker has just arrived, and people kill each other for water”she described, also evoking this friend who told him a few days ago having seen “People burn … because of the explosions, and there was no water to save them”.
At the same time, Mme Cherevko deplored that “Hospitals report a blood shortage while the victims continue to flock”. “Gaza is in ruins, the streets are strewn with rubble … Often, the cries of freezing the wounded blood set off in heaven after the deafening noise of a new explosion”says the manager. It also denounced massive trips, almost all of the Gaza population having been forced to move many times, to find a semblance of shelter or to respond to Israeli injunctions. Since the brief ceasefire for a few weeks failed in mid-March, “More than 420,000 people have again been forced to flee, much with only their clothes on their backs, targeted, arriving in overcrowded shelters” While the bombings continue.
