NEW YORK, June 24, 2025 (WAFA) - Head of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in the occupied Palestinian territory, Jonathan Whittall, warned that as global attention shifts elsewhere, people in Gaza are being killed while trying to access food, stating: “The attempt to survive is being met with a death sentence.”

“What we are seeing is carnage. It is weaponized hunger. It is forced displacement. It’s a death sentence for people just trying to survive. All combined, it appears to be the erasure of Palestinian life from Gaza," he said in a briefing on Gaza.

He added: “We need to see accountability for the crimes committed; we need to see concrete political and economic pressure from states to bring this to an end; and we need to see a lasting ceasefire, in line with the rulings by the International Court of Justice.”

“This is the bare minimum. Inaction enables atrocities that are measured in human lives.”

T.R.