Until when? The continuous assault on the Gaza strip intervenes in a context of increasing concern. The total blockade of humanitarian aid, decreed by Israel, aggravates an already catastrophic situation. Present on site, humanitarian agencies denounce the shortage of food and supplies and alert to a unprecedented famine situation. Scheduled to treat and prevent malnutrition, stocks of drugs are exhausted rapidly, while proven cases of serious undernourishment are multiplying.
In the Gaza Strip, the price of the little food still available on the market is unaffordable for most inhabitants, in a territory where, according to the United Nations, more than 80 % of the population depends on humanitarian aid. More and more organizations now accuse Israel of using famine as a weapon of war.
100 dead in the space of twenty-four hours
The images that come to us are terrible. Children with dug cheeks, the orbits sunk, the protruding bones and the emaciated body, their mothers often in tears by their sides or holding them, lifeless, in their arms. In the south of the Gaza Strip, in front of a charitable canteen which has become one of the only places of food distribution and in a desperate crowd, …
