WHO: We just cannot see the end of this nightmare for the population of Gaza.
UN agency warns of looming famine in Gaza. CGTN Europe spoke to Tarik Jasarevic, WHO spokesperson on the latest situation.
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00:00 get more on the situation in Gaza now and talk to Tarek Yasharovic from the
00:05 World Health Organization. Tarek welcome first of all how would you describe the
00:12 situation in Gaza now what are your people telling you?
00:16 Well thank you the situation is really getting worse that's what we hear from
00:21 our colleagues on the ground who are trying on a daily basis to reach
00:26 hospitals that are still functional and now we are down to 10 out of 36
00:33 hospitals that are providing some basic health services so we had two more
00:40 hospitals that stopped functioning because simply there is no food there is
00:46 no material there's no fuel for electricity so the situation is getting
00:50 worse and worse we are not able to reach Al Shifa Hospital that I was just
00:55 mentioned in your program for four days now we are hearing about what is
01:00 happening just like your correspondent was saying but we are not able to get
01:04 there and to help health workers inside inside Al Shifa in other hospital the
01:08 situation is equally difficult we hear about malnutrition that is being seen
01:16 by by doctors Ministry of Health reports that 31 people have died from
01:23 malnutrition including 27 children so situation is really desperate and it's
01:29 getting worse and and we just can't see the end of this nightmare for the for
01:34 the population of Gaza. When the United Nations warns that the starvation in
01:38 Gaza is turning into a famine and they say could amount to a war crime could it?
01:45 I will leave that to colleagues from the High Commission of Human Rights to deal
01:51 with definitions what we know is that analysis that have been made by the
01:57 group organization is showing that there is a acute malnutrition especially in
02:03 north of Gaza one child out of three age under two years is acutely malnourished
02:12 and I just mentioned cases of people dying and children dying from from not
02:17 having enough of food not having enough of food and nutrients that is needed can
02:22 have a really horrible consequences not only for children but for pregnant women
02:27 and and a newborn so so we just we really need to find a solution a
02:32 solution is to bring more aid as it has been already said through all the
02:37 possible crossings that exist and all the possible ways to get that food to
02:42 people to Gaza to have a ceasefire so we can have a environment where health
02:46 system can start doing what it's supposed to do. Tarek I don't know if you
02:51 managed to hear our earlier reports but the suggestion that talks about talks
02:54 may be restarting the diplomatic narrative might be recommencing how long
03:01 have these people got do you think? Well we should we should have done all of
03:09 that yesterday to put it that way people in Gaza are hungry when we try to go to
03:15 hospitals with our trucks where we have some medical supplies people stop our
03:19 trucks hoping there is some food people are desperate you have seen the scene so
03:23 so there is really no time to lose this is the moment where everything should be
03:28 done to flood Gaza with with food and other other things unfortunately what is
03:33 coming in as your correspondent was saying is nearly not enough so so we need
03:38 more of crossings being open we need more supplies to get in and eventually
03:45 we need a ceasefire so this humanitarian space can be created for for us to do
03:51 our job because even if we get things inside Gaza if we can't move it within
03:56 the Gaza because there is a fighting we don't get security clearances to move
04:00 then that is not going to help so we really need to be able to move where
04:05 it's needed. Tarek Yasharavik from the World Health Organization thank you very