NEW YORK, October 21, 2024 (WAFA) - The media officer at the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) Enas Hamdan said that Israel rejected an urgent request submitted by the agency to evacuate those trapped under the rubble as a result of the genocide being committed in the northern Gaza Strip.
This came in statements made by Hamdan earlier today while famine is worsening in the northern Gaza Strip due to the Israeli genocide and the policy of ethnic cleansing that the Palestinian civilians there are being subjected to.
The UN official said: “Over the past two weeks, we have repeatedly warned that the tightening of the siege on Jabalia and the northern governorate in general is making the situation even more catastrophic, and the ongoing Israeli military operations are putting tens of thousands of civilians in imminent danger.”
"Moreover, the military offensive in northern Gaza is cutting people off from the necessities they need to survive, including water," she added.
Hamdan warned that “Jabalia camp has been under siege for more than two weeks, and we are receiving information about families trapped in their homes, with water and food running out, and images coming from the camp show residents running for their lives, with no safe place to go.”
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