Griffiths: Gaza has become “uninhabitable”

Emphasizing that three months have passed since the beginning of the Israeli aggression on Gaza Strip, United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator Martin Griffiths said that Gaza has become “uninhabitable” and called for an immediate cessation of hostilities. Tens of thousands of people, mostly women and children, have been killed or injured during the attacks.

Moreover, families are sleeping in the open as temperatures plummet, Griffiths stressed. “Gaza has simply become uninhabitable. Its people are witnessing daily threats to their very existence while the world watches on,” he said, according to AFP.

Additionally, public health disasters are unfolding as infectious diseases are spreading in overcrowded shelters as sewers spill over. Moreover, the areas where civilians were told to relocate for their safety have come under bombardment.

Adding that medical facilities are under relentless attack, he said, “The few hospitals that are partially functional are overwhelmed with trauma cases, critically short of all supplies, and inundated by desperate people seeking safety.” Furthermore, some 180 Palestinian women are giving birth daily amidst this chaos and people are facing the highest levels of food insecurity ever recorded.

“Famine is around the corner,” Griffiths added. Emphasizing the ongoing situation of war-torn children, he said that the past 12 weeks have been traumatic for them.

“No food. No water. No school. Nothing but the terrifying sounds of war, day in and day out,” he said. “We continue to demand an immediate end to the war, not just for the people of Gaza and its threatened neighbors, but for the generations to come who will never forget these 90 days of hell and of assaults on the most basic precepts of humanity,” he affirmed.

Source: AFP