The clillating up in Gaza in the face of a “desperate” situation, according to the UN
The looting has taken up and increases in the Gaza Strip, which faces a humanitarian situation “Desperate”due in particular to the blocking of humanitarian aid since the beginning of March, Stéphane Dujarric, the spokesperson for the UN Secretary General, said on Monday, notably evoking looting this weekend of a truck in Deir al-Balah and a warehouse in the city of Gaza. He said he had no information on the authors of these looting.
“Faced with plunderers, we do not ask questions”he noted. But, “What I can say is that, during the transitional period of the ceasefire, when the aid entered, we have not received any information on looting”he insisted. “Whether they are flying out of despair or criminal gangs that fly to sell, I don’t know, but what we know is that there are fewer and fewer goods in Gaza. »» Thus, since the beginning of the year, around 10,000 cases of serious malnutrition have been identified in children, he noted.
Israel controls all international aid flows, vital for the 2.4 million Palestinians from the Gaza Strip struck by an unprecedented humanitarian crisis, and interrupted them on March 2, a few days before the collapse of a fragile ceasefire, after fifteen months of incessant fights.