United Nations: Israeli attacks in Gaza are taking a horrifying toll on civilians already suffering dwindling food supplies and looting due to the aid blockade, UN humanitarians said.
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said on Thursday that there have been daily reports of Israeli strikes killing and injuring many Palestinian civilians, Xinhua news agency reported. “Just yesterday (Wednesday) in Gaza City, there were reports of dozens of people killed, including at least eight children, after an Israeli strike hit a residential building,” OCHA said. “Many are still missing under the rubble.”
The Ministry of Health in Gaza reported that more than 1,500 people reportedly were killed, many of them women and children, since the intensification of hostilities less than a month ago.
The office said the hostilities and continued blocking of cargo entry into Gaza for almost six weeks are hampering people’s access to life-saving aid.
“As supplies inside the Strip near exhaustion and the situation becomes increasingly dire, there has been an increase in looting over the past few days,” OCHA said. (IANS)
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