GENEVA, Friday, November 10, 2023 (WAFA) – Jens Laerke, spokesman for the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, said today that they are unable to deliver aid trucks to the northern regions of Gaza as the Israeli aerial and ground offensive in the besieged enclave rages.
"If there is a hell on earth, it is the north of Gaza," Laerke told the weekly press briefing in Geneva. "It is a life of fear by day and darkness at night and what do you tell your children in such a situation, it's almost unimaginable - that the fire they see in the sky is out to kill them?" he said.
He added that although a handful of UN humanitarian trucks reached the south of the Gaza Strip, no aid has been sent to the north part of the Strip where hundreds of thousands of people are now trapped under direct Israeli military siege.
"We cannot drive to the north at the current point which is of course deeply frustrating because we know there are several hundred thousand people who remain in the north," said Laerke.
A group of UN experts have recently warned that Palestinians are “at a grave risk of genocide” as the Israeli government maintains a complete siege on the Gaza Strip.
At least 10,900 Palestinians, including 4,412 children and 2,918 women, have been killed by Israeli bombardment in Gaza so far, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health.
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