The entire strip, with a population of two million people, can be on the verge of famine as the World Food Program runs out of supplies.
At least 13 Palestinians have been killed since dawn and the dishes of others buried under the rubble of a building destroyed in an Israeli air attack in the city of Gaza.
On Saturday, four victims, at least, were killed in a strike in a house in the Sabra neighborhood of the city, with residents forced to dig the ground with their naked hands to reach people buried in the debris.
Basal Mahmoud, spokesman for the Gaza Civil Defense Agency, said the lack of rescue teams has prevented emergency workers from reaching those buried under the collapsed building bombarded by Israel before dawn.
“Our crews cannot reach them due to the lack of the necessary machinery,” he told the AFP news agency.
Earlier this week, Israeli aircraft destroyed 40 engineering vehicles that civil defense equipment were using to eliminate heavy debris during rescue operations.
Israeli air attacks also reached other parts of the Strip on Saturday, including Al-Mawasi and Khan Younis, since the besieged territory faces massive massive starvation in the middle of a ongoing genocide.
After 18 months of the Israeli military invasion that has killed more than 51,000 Palestinians, the situation in Gaza “is likely the worst” that has been, the United Nations warned.
The UN World Food Program (PMA) said Friday that the entire strip, with a population of two million people, can be on the edge of the famine and are expected that help kitchens are “waiting for food in the coming days.”
Israel’s current blockade has not meant food, fuel or medicine has entered Gaza for two months. For many Palestinians in Gaza, community kitchens were their only source of nutrition after Israeli forces destroyed almost all food production facilities.
The PMA has appealed to the international community that presses Israel to lift the blockade, saying more than 116,000 metric tons of food assistance, enough to feed a million people for up to four months, borders of the ropennsion “..
Reporting from Deir El-Balah on Saturday, Tareq Abu Azzoum of Al Jazeera said that the humanitarian crisis in the besieged territory “has reached a very unprecedented breakdown point.”
“Civilians are really struggling to deal with this crisis,” he said.
Philippe Lazzarini, head of the UN Palestinian refugee agency, UNRWA, said the crisis was “man done by man.”
Michael Fakhri, a UN Rapporteur to the right of the food, said Israel is “executing this starfish without repercussions.”
The World Health Organization said that the situation was no different for medical supplies, with the WHO Tedros Adhanom ghebreyesus supplicating X that the aid block ends.
At least 2,062 people have been killed in Gaza since Israel resumed their deadly campaign against Hamas on March 18, and more than 50,000 since October 7, 2023. Hamas’ attack against Israel killed 1,218 people, mostly civilians.