GAZA, (PIC)
The UN has stressed the importance of delivering enough aid to the Gaza Strip overland to save human lives, warning that obstacles to aid entry persists and time is running out.
UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric told a news conference in New York on Thursday that over 1.1 million people in Gaza are facing famine, calling for necessarily sending humanitarian aid shipments to Gaza without interruption in order to save the lives of children.
Dujarric pointed out that Andrea Di Domenico, head of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), recently visited one of the four hospitals that partially provide medical services in northern Gaza.
The spokesman quoted Di Domenico as saying that this hospital receives about 15 children suffering from malnutrition every day.
He said that the Israeli army continues to prevent aid trucks from reaching northern Gaza, although the World Food Program announced that about 70 percent of the remaining residents there are already facing catastrophic levels of hunger.
