GENEVA: The top of the UN Palestinian refugee company mentioned on Tuesday (Jul 22) that its employees, in addition to medical doctors and humanitarian staff, had been fainting on responsibility in Gaza resulting from starvation and exhaustion.
The United Nations Reduction and Works Company for Palestine Refugees within the Close to East mentioned it had acquired dozens of emergency messages from its employees describing grave situations and exhaustion within the enclave, the place Israel has been preventing a conflict in opposition to Hamas since October 2023.
“Nobody is spared – caretakers in Gaza are additionally in want of care. Medical doctors, nurses, journalists and humanitarians are hungry,” UNRWA Commissioner Normal Philippe Lazzarini mentioned in a press release, shared by his spokesperson at a press briefing in Geneva.
“Many are actually fainting resulting from starvation and exhaustion whereas performing their duties – reporting atrocities or assuaging a few of the struggling.”
Lazzarini additionally criticised a US-backed assist distribution scheme run by the Gaza Humanitarian Basis that has been supplying assist since late Could, when Israel, which controls provides into Gaza, lifted an 11-week blockade.
“The so-called ‘GHF’ distribution scheme is a sadistic dying entice. Snipers open hearth randomly on crowds as if they’re given a licence to kill,” Lazzarini mentioned.
