The leaders of the United Nations' humanitarian agencies issued a dire joint warning about Gaza on Monday, calling for world leaders to ensure the basic principles of international humanitarian law are upheld.
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00:00The leaders of the UN humanitarian agencies issued a direct joint warning about Gaza on
00:06Monday calling for world leaders to ensure that the basic principles of international
00:11humanitarian law are upheld.
00:14Speaking to journalists at UN headquarters, Spokesperson Stefan Duharric said agencies
00:20are calling on the world to react with urgency to save Palestinians in Gaza.
00:25Supply from humanitarian ships comes as Israel has blocked the entrance of commercial and
00:31humanitarian supplies to Gaza for more than a month while issuing new displacement orders
00:38that have forced hundreds of thousands of Palestinians to flee once again.
00:45Duharric added that survivors across Gaza are being forced into every sharing space
00:54when their basic needs cannot be met.
01:00Top officials from a number of UN agencies, notably OCHA, the World Food Programme, UNRWA,
01:07UNICEF and UNOPS issued a statement a short while ago calling on the world to react with
01:12urgency to save Palestinians in Gaza.
01:16The UN officials noted that for over a month, no commercial or humanitarian supplies have
01:20entered Gaza and more than 2.1 million people are trapped, bombed and starved again.
01:27Food, medicine, fuel, shelter supplies are piling up at crossing points and vital equipment
01:33is also stuck.
01:35Although the latest ceasefire allowed humanitarians to see that supplies reached every part of
01:41the Gaza Strip, they said that assertions that there is now enough food for all of Palestinians
01:49in the Gaza Strip are far from the reality on the ground.
01:53Meanwhile, our humanitarian colleagues tell us that across Gaza, Israeli attacks continue
01:57unabated, causing systematic large-scale civilian casualties.
02:03People including many children are being killed, injured and maimed for life.
02:08Survivors across Gaza are being displaced repeatedly and forced into an ever-shrinking
02:12space where their basic needs just cannot be met.
02:17Overall, we estimate that nearly 400,000 people have been displaced yet again since the breakdown
02:23of the ceasefire.
02:24That's 18% of all Palestinians in Gaza.
02:28And no arrangements to secure their safety and survival have made a responsibility that
02:33falls on Israel as the occupying power.