UNICEF spokeswoman Tess Ingram said the situation in northern Gaza was “appalling, according to our staff,” stressing that the Zionist aggression against civilians must be stopped immediately.
In a statement on Friday, Ingram pointed to the disruption of all services as a result of the Zionist aggression that has been going on for more than 60 days.
She pointed out that the continuous targeting of the infrastructure and the health system in the northern Gaza Strip has led to more martyrs among civilians, most of them children, due to the lack of health services or the complete termination of hospitals.
“Our colleagues saw children looking for food from extreme hunger, collecting plastics for heating,” Ingram said.
“Children’s lives are threatened not only by bullets and shelling but also by deteriorating health, food, and environmental conditions,” she concluded.
Since the fifth of last October, the enemy army continued to commit its crimes and ethnic cleansing operations against Palestinians in the northern Gaza governorate, accompanied by the destruction of entire residential neighborhoods, facilities, and infrastructure, in addition to preventing the entry of food, medicine and water supplies to the population.
The recent aggression so far has caused the death of more than 3,700 Palestinians, and the injury of about 10,000 Palestinians, with the health system out of service, as officials warned in previous times that “the injured are doomed to die in northern Gaza due to lack of medical capabilities.”
