DOHA, (PIC)
The Director-General of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Pierre Krähenbühl, said on Monday, “a new inferno has been unleashed on Gaza following the restart of war in the Palestinian territory.”
“Gaza is experiencing and enduring death, injury, multiple displacements, amputations, separation, disappearance, starvation and denial of aid and dignity on a massive scale,” he added.
In his speech at the Global Security Forum in the Qatari capital, Doha, Krähenbühl said, “just when the important ceasefire on January 19 led people to believe they had survived the worst, a new inferno was unleashed.”
On March 18, Israel reneged on the ceasefire and prisoner exchange agreement in place since January 19 and resumed its war of genocide against the Gaza Strip, despite Hamas’s commitment to all terms of the agreement.
Warnings have recently escalated from international aid officials over a new imminent disaster in the Strip, which is suffering from a shortage of basic foodstuffs, medical supplies, and humanitarian aid amid the war and the closure of crossings.
The Gaza Strip, whose population is about 2.4 million, is almost entirely dependent on humanitarian aid, which has been completely halted since March 2, when Israel closed the Karm Abu Salem, Zikim and Beit Hanoun crossings.
With unconditional US support, Israel has been committing genocide in Gaza since October 7, 2023, leaving around 169,000 Palestinians martyrs and wounded, most of them children and women, and more than 11,000 missing.
