Malnutrition Due to the Severe Starvation Imposed by Israel.
Actually, Israel is imposing a collective punishment on
the civilian population in the north of Gaza Strip. As you know, on the 13th of
October, Israel issued forced evacuation orders to the residents in the whole
of Gaza City and the northern Gaza Strip. Those who did not comply with these
forced orders are now facing a collective punishment by Israel for not
complying with these orders. And while Israel allows, under severe
restrictions, the goods and the aid to enter the southern and the central parts
of the Gaza Strip, it completely bans any kind of food and any kind of aid into
the Gaza City, and we are talking about dozens of people who have died due to
malnutrition. Only last week alone, four Palestinian children have died due to
malnutrition at Kamal Adwan Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip. We are now
talking about over 5,000 Palestinian children in the north of Gaza who are at
risk of dying due to malnutrition.
So, this is particularly an Israeli systematic tool of
war, which it has used to starve the Palestinian population and to push them to
come to the southern parts of the Gaza Strip. I have testimonies from people
there who reported to me that amid the starvation of the Gaza Strip and the
Gaza City in particular, the Israeli army, at checkpoints — when they cross the
checkpoints, the Israeli army and Israeli soldiers tell the residents that “If
you want to eat, go to the south.” So, this is like a kind of intimidation and
forced displacement tool for Palestinians, that if they want to really live,
they have to evacuate, to forcibly evacuate their homes and comply with Israeli
orders to go to the southern parts of the Gaza Strip.
And this is why I think that Israel is allowing aid into
the southern Gaza Strip. It’s not only for the mere, like, benefit of the
residents, because they have been bombing also residents who are allowed to get
some food here in the southern Gaza Strip, but I think that this is kind of
like —
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