Israel blockaded the Gaza Strip, the supply of electricity, gas, fuel, water, food, medicine was suspended. Gaza is in total darkness. Due to lack of fuel, the only power plant in the enclave was shut down. Overcrowded hospitals will soon be without power, making it impossible for medical staff to provide assistance. Doctors, regardless of all the difficulties, are fighting for the lives of wounded people, of whom there are at least 5.339. data is from Al Jazeera, whose reporters appeal that medicines are urgently needed.
Since Saturday, when Israeli airstrikes began, more than 1100 Palestinians have been killed, including 260 children and 230 women, according to the latest figures from the Gaza Health Ministry. 11 members of the United Nations mission were killed. The number of victims is increasing by the hour.
Reporters Al Jazeera they show pictures and footage of mothers saying goodbye to their dead children. On them, you can see wounded and frightened children being transported to hospitals by ambulance.
In addition to the shortage of medicine, the government also has a shortage of food and water, so humanitarian organizations are sending water to the camps for those left homeless.
"We still have food for twelve days," says UNRWA's deputy director for Gaza, Jennifer Austin, and points to the problem of displaced people, which is much bigger than the number of people in UN schools.
One of the residents of Gaza told Al Jazeera's reporters that they had not seen such bombing in any other place, "not even in Hiroshima and Nagasaki", and that they also threw trees and stones at children.
Call for humanitarian aid
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said he was deeply disturbed by Israel's decision to impose a "total siege" on the Gaza Strip and called for humanitarian aid.
"Medical equipment, food, fuel and other humanitarian supplies are desperately needed, as is access to humanitarian personnel," he added.
Guterres emphasizes that this violence "did not come out of the blue", but arose from "a long-standing conflict and a fifty-six-year-long occupation with no political solution in sight".
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White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said the US is working to create safe passage for Gazans who want to escape Israeli bombardment, but so far there has been no progress.
"We are actively discussing this with our Israeli and Egyptian counterparts," Kirby told reporters, stressing that "civilians are not to blame for what Hamas has done."
The head of the government's media office in Gaza, Salama Marouf, appealed for help from the whole world.
"People die here." We suffer, and the whole world is silent. It is about double standards. If we were of a different skin color, we would have been treated differently. How long will you watch these atrocities?'
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