NEW YORK, August 19, 2025 (WAFA) – United Nations spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric stressed on Monday the urgent need to allow humanitarian workers to deliver life-saving assistance at scale throughout the Gaza Strip.

He added, during the daily press conference at the organization's headquarters in Geneva, that "to avoid such deaths due to Israeli starvation, humanitarian workers must be able to deliver food on a large and sustained scale through all available crossings and roads to reach the Strip's 2.1 million people, half of whom are children."

He Dujarric, "We are concerned by the Israeli authorities' announcement of an imminent expansion of their military activities in Gaza City," according to the UN News website.

Dujarric stressed that expanding operations to occupy all of Gaza City "will lead to the displacement of thousands of people once again to a densely populated area in the southern Gaza Strip, which lacks even the most basic infrastructure and services, including food, water, and medical services."

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