The alarms sound at the rapid deterioration of the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip. Dozens of NGOs warned on Wednesday about the exhaustion of their own teams and talk about a “mass famine” in the Palestinian enclave. France also claimed that the international press be authorized to enter Gaza. For almost two years, the conflict has been covered exclusively by Gazati journalists, who also run hunger risks.
In almost two years of war, our correspondent in Loop Rami the Meghari has lived countless bombings and forced displacements. He was even on the edge of a violent death.
Now hunger stalks it slowly, in a territory where very few foods enter.
“When I go out to make reports, I need energy, carbohydrates. It is impossible to find them,” he explains. “Today we see people pass out in the street. Some children are given salt water so they can resist, because there is no food, or because it is too expensive. I, at least, have a small source of income. But these last days, I am economically drowned.”
Rami must feed four people in a territory where the kilo of flour costs $ 45. Since June, more than 1,000 Palestinians from Gaza have died trying to recover help, including valuable flour.
111 organizations
This Wednesday, July 23, a hundred associations for the defense of human rights and humanitarian organizations denounced in a statement that “while the siege of the Israeli government causes hunger among the population of Gaza, help workers are joining the same ranks to receive food, risking receiving shots just by trying to feed their families” and warned about the propagation in the enclave of a “mass famine”.
The 111 signatory NGOs of the statement, among which are doctors without borders (MSF), Save the Children and Oxfam, warned that “colleagues and those we serve are dying slowly.”
“Sudden heart attacks”
For its part, in an interview with RFI, the European Commissioner in charge of emergency situations, Hadja Lahbib, considered that “the situation is catastrophic.” “A threshold of unimaginable horror has crossed, with children who die of hunger and adults who suffer sudden heart attacks because vital functions can no longer function due to famine,” he told our environment.
This call occurred shortly after the special envoy of USASteve Witkoff, announced a trip to Europe this week “hoping to achieve a new fire, as well as a humanitarian corridor for the delivery of help that both parties in fact accepted,” said Tammy Bruce, spokesman for the State Department.
