Cassey Tash
Lister
World Food Programme Deputy Executive Director Carl Skau has described his experience when he visited Gaza. Noting that nothing prepared him for the fear, chaos, and the encounter.
"Confusion at warehouses, distribution points with thousands of desperate hungry people, supermarkets with bare shelves, and overcrowded shelters with bursting bathrooms. The dull thud of bombs was the soundtrack for our day," he said in a statement.
Skau added that nine out of ten families in some areas spent a full day and night without any food at all, and this goes up to 10 days in the past month when they had not eaten food.
"We have food on trucks, but we need more than one crossing. And once the trucks are inside, we need free and safe passage to reach Palestinians wherever they are.
This will only be possible with a humanitarian ceasefire and ultimately, we need this conflict to end," he added.
"People in Gaza are desperate. You can see fear in the eyes of women and children."
The official while interacting with some of the Palestinians, one woman told him she lived with nine other families in one apartment.
"They take turns sleeping at night because not all could lay down at the same time. Later, we drove by a cemetery with people gathered for what seemed like a burial. Looking more closely we saw they were cutting down trees in the cemetery to use as firewood."
Egypt has agreed to send in humanitarian food to Gaza, but they have faced challenges at the borders.
Israel and Palestine have been fighting for a century now over the Gaza strip. Thousands have died in the fight, with children and woman being treated in Cairo, Egypt.
Israel through a statement alleged that Hamas leaders are hiding in Khan Younis, possibly in an underground network of tunnels, and that it is fighting house to house and "shaft to shaft" to destroy the group's military capabilities.
"Confusion at warehouses, distribution points with thousands of desperate hungry people, supermarkets with bare shelves, and overcrowded shelters with bursting bathrooms. The dull thud of bombs was the soundtrack for our day," he said in a statement.
Skau added that nine out of ten families in some areas spent a full day and night without any food at all, and this goes up to 10 days in the past month when they had not eaten food.
"We have food on trucks, but we need more than one crossing. And once the trucks are inside, we need free and safe passage to reach Palestinians wherever they are.
This will only be possible with a humanitarian ceasefire and ultimately, we need this conflict to end," he added.
"People in Gaza are desperate. You can see fear in the eyes of women and children."
The official while interacting with some of the Palestinians, one woman told him she lived with nine other families in one apartment.
"They take turns sleeping at night because not all could lay down at the same time. Later, we drove by a cemetery with people gathered for what seemed like a burial. Looking more closely we saw they were cutting down trees in the cemetery to use as firewood."
Egypt has agreed to send in humanitarian food to Gaza, but they have faced challenges at the borders.
Israel and Palestine have been fighting for a century now over the Gaza strip. Thousands have died in the fight, with children and woman being treated in Cairo, Egypt.
Israel through a statement alleged that Hamas leaders are hiding in Khan Younis, possibly in an underground network of tunnels, and that it is fighting house to house and "shaft to shaft" to destroy the group's military capabilities.