| Topic: | Re:Pope calls for an immediate end to the barbarity in Palestine. | |
| Posted by: | Gerry Boyce | |
| Date/Time: | 24/07/25 11:56:00 |
| UNICEF's spokesperson in Gaza Rosalia Bollen said Gaza "is really one of the most frustrating places on Earth to be working as a humanitarian due to the constant bombardment and displacement orders.” "Right now there's less than 13% of the territory that is not under displacement order or that hasn't been designated as a military zone, that affects the population, but it also affects our ability to move around and to operate and it means that the population is constantly on the move. "So the communities that we're trying to help, that we're trying to follow, they keep moving and that means that our services have to move to". She said that UN agencies are in constant contact with the Israeli Defence Forces to ensure that agency staff can move around to ensure that our premises are deconflicted. She said an attack on a UN warehouse earlier this week gravely undermines humanitarian operations and their ability to bring medicines in. "So this is this is very bad news for healthcare in Gaza, which was already really on the brink. Right now what we need is more access, more supplies, which are ready outside of Gaza. "The solution is there." The war between Israel and Hamas has been raging for nearly two years since Hamas killed some 1,200 Israelis and took 251 hostages from southern Israel on 7 October 2023, in the deadliest attack in Israel's history. Israel has since killed nearly 60,000 Palestinians in Gaza, reduced most of the territory to ruins and forced nearly the entire population to flee their homes multiple times. |