Majed Abu Ramadan says that 29 Palestinian children, older people killed as hunger handles bombed enclave.
At least 29 children and older people have deaths “related to hunger” in the Gaza Strip in recent days, says Palestinian Health Minister, warning that thousands more are at risk as limited aid begins to drip and stick.
Majed Abu Ramadan told journalists on Thursday that the previous comments of the United Nations Head of Nations BBC that 14,000 babies could die without the necessary food aid was desperately being “very realistic”, but it could be a substation.
Israel has allowed limited deliveries of humanitarian aid to Gaza in the middle of a wave of international condemnation of its total blockade of 11 weeks in the territory, which stimulated the warnings of the mass famine.
But UN officials have said that the humanitarian aid that enters Gaza is not “anywhere close enough” to meet the needs of the population in the enclave devastated by war.
Around 90 aid trucks entered Gaza on Thursday, but Abu Ramadan said “very few shipments entered Gaza.” The help that was allowed was limited to “bakery flour,” he added.
The president of the Palestinian Society Red Medcent (PRCS), Young Al-Khatib, also said that the Palestinians have not yet received any supply so far. “No civilian has received anything yet,” Al-Katib told journalists.
He said that most help trucks are still at the crossing of Karem Abu Salem, known as Core Kerem to the Israelis, in southern Gaza.
As the limited delivery dies from the strip, the Israeli army has continued to launch attacks throughout the enclave, with the medical sources with the Count of Al Jazeera that at least 51 Palestinians have killed since the dawn on Thursday.
At least 53,655 Palestinians have been killed and more than 121,000 others injured since the Israel War against Gaza began in October 2023, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health.
In informing from Deir El-Balah in the center of Gaza, Tareq Abu Azzoum of Al Jazeera said that although the Palestinians have welcomed the influx of help, it is a “fall in the ocean” compared to the needs of the population.
“Five hundred help trucks are needed on a daily base to avoid the current food crisis in the territory,” said Abu Azzoum.
Even so, the resident of Gaza, Ahmed Abed per day, said that the help trucks were a “positive sign” amid dire conditions.
“Our houses are empty, there is no bread, and our children are hungry,” he told Al Jazeera.
“In many homes, bread has disappeared. What people urgently need is a constant and sufficient flour flow and other essential elements. Unfortunately, the limited help that has entered so far cannot meet our.”
Another resident, rep zidiah, said that
“All of us here in Gaza, we don’t think tomorrow because we don’t know what will happen tomorrow, if we are going to live or die,” Zidiah told Al Jazeera.
Meanwhile, Israeli military spokesman Avichay Adraee announced new forced evacuation orders for Palestinians in Jabalia and Beit Lahiya in northern Gaza.
He said in an X publication that the Army “will significantly expand its military activity” in the area.
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