Abdullah Al-Haqim 
The head of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (Ocha) warned on Wednesday that the stocks “run out very quickly” in the Gaza Strip, as Israel prevents the entry of humanitarian aid since March 2.
Tom Fletcher said at a press conference that after the armistice between Israel and “Hamas” entered into force on January 19, “during those six weeks, we made tremendous progress in feeding many millions of people who needed food, delivering medicines, and starting to restart hospitals.”
But eleven days ago, nothing entered the area.
Israel prevents the entry of humanitarian aid, and on Sunday it stopped the electricity supply of the main water desalination plant, which provides at least 600,000 people.
Israel announced at the beginning of this month that it would freeze the delivery of aid until Hamas accepted its conditions to extend the truce.
Fleischer stressed that “eleven days is really very long to prevent aid from reaching civilians who are in need of it.”
He pointed out that the aid supplies “run out very quickly.”
The UN official stated that “the lack of fuel means closing the incubators,” warning that the situation “will turn very quickly to a humanitarian crisis again.”
Fletcher visited the sector at the beginning of February.
“It was much worse than I expected. I really prepared myself for the worst,” he said.
He talked about his “shock” from seeing the dogs extinguishing the rubble, adding, “I asked my colleague who was with me, why are the dogs very fat? He said because they are looking for the bodies.”
“You notice that people are serving, then you see this at a distance of kilometers and kilometers. I don’t think anything can make you ready for that.”
