The head of the U.N.’s Palestinian relief agency said Friday that staff were being forced to make decisions “no humanitarian workers should do” amid the Israeli siege, as he described aid deliveries reaching the Gaza Strip as mere “crumbs.” Speaking at a news conference Friday, UNRWA Commissioner General Philippe Lazzarini said the agency had “drastically” reduced its fuel consumption in response to the dwindling supplies caused by Israel’s total siege of Gaza.
“Gaza is being strangled,” he said, and its people “feel shunned, alienated and abandoned.” In addition to severe shortages of medicine, food and water, Gaza’s streets “have started overflowing with sewage,” according to Lazzarini, who said UNRWA will not be able to last “more than a few days.” He said that many people had seen “a glimmer of hope” when deliveries of aid began entering Gaza via the Rafah crossing with Egypt. “This is, however, becoming a distraction,” he continued.
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