UNRWA: ‘Israel’ refuses to allow humanitarian aid into Gaza

Gaza (QNN)- The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) said today that the occupation state is preventing humanitarian aid from entering into the Gaza strip through Karm Abu salem border crossing.

In a statement issued on Wednesday, UNRWA urged the occupation state to allow “timely” passage of humanitarian aid and its staff into the besieged Gaza Strip amid ongoing Israeli attacks on Palestinian civilians.

UNRWA said it did “not receive approval for critical access to Gaza for essential humanitarian supplies meant to provide relief to the distressed population, including particularly vulnerable persons such as pregnant women, children, persons with disabilities and serious medical conditions, and the elderly, despite immense needs following nine days of conflict.”

It also underlined the importance of respecting international humanitarian law “to allow and facilitate rapid and unimpeded passage of impartial humanitarian relief to the civilian population, and to respect and protect their right to essential levels of human rights such as food, primary health care, and basic shelter and housing”, stressing the obligations of the occupying power to ensure food and medical supplies for the civilian population as enshrined in the Fourth Geneva Convention.

“It cannot wait,” Tamara Alrifai, UNRWA Director of Strategic Communications said in an appeal for an urgent humanitarian truce. “Every day without a cease-fire is a day with more lives lost, more homes and livelihoods destroyed. This is unacceptable.”

Israeli daily airstrikes have killed 221 civilians, including 63 children and 36 women. They also wounded 1539 others.

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