A 14-year-old girl with cerebral paralysis that depends on a wheelchair was part of the crowds fleeing Israeli military aircraft in the east of Rafah in Gaza on October 13, 2023, said that the member of the Muhannad Salah al-Azzeh committee, who presented a report on the Palestinian territories occupied on Wednesday in Geneva. In the fray, she lost her wheelchair.
“” She cracked on the sand and asked her family, saying to them “you can leave me here” because she felt that she slowed them down“He said.
Indeed, some people ignore the evacuation orders given to Gaza because of their handicap since the start of the almost two year war launched by the attack led by Hamas against Israel.
“This is one of the most serious problems because in regular situations, personal handicaps are excluded in an emergency, more excluded,” he said. “It’s more complicated for them.”
A woman in a wheelchair is transported through the rubble.
States do not protect the rights of disabled people
Following in -depth interviews with individuals, delegations and organizations working in Gaza and in the West Bank, the United Nations Committee has submitted a series of serious recommendations and concerns to Israel and the Palestinian Authority.
The situation in Gaza is a serious concern, said Al-Azzeh.
“What we are witnessing there is very worrying for us,” he warned. “We believe that all states parties Convention on the rights of people with disabilitiesThey really failed in one way or another to fulfill their obligations to protect and ensure the minimum protection of disabled people in the emergency situation. »»
Quoting Grim Cases reported to the committee since the start of the war, he said in one case, prolonged electricity closings in Rafah have left a mother unable to receive evacuation messages on her mobile phone, and she and her children died subsequently in an Israeli strike.
Noor’s parents, nine, deaf, have relied heavily on her to survive bombing and attacks by Israeli tanks. She had to learn a new signature vocabulary for the language of war, including tanks, armed quadcopters, bursts of shells and planes, said the representative of the committee.
There are dozens of examples of people like Abdulrahman al-Gharbawi, with cerebral paralysis and disability of the lower limbs, he said.
The nine times that the family of the 27 -year -old graphic designer has been moved since the start of the war, His mother would wear her wheelchair while her father and brother transported him.
“Horrible” situation in Gaza City
The United Nations Office for Humanitarian Affairs Coordination (Ochha) warned Wednesday that a new intensification of the continuous offensive of Gaza City, in the middle of continuous famine, will push civilians – already beaten and bereaved – in an even deeper disaster than world leaders must act decisively to prevent.
“Partners supporting travel sites have warned that the growing hostilities of Gaza City have horrible humanitarian consequences for people living on these sites, many of whom were previously moved to North Gaza,” said the United Nations Agency. “They say that Many households are unable to move due to high costs and a lack of safe space to move, with the elderly and disabled people, especially affected. “”
The partners report that between August 14 to 31, more than 82,000 new trips have been recorded, including nearly 30,000 movements from north to south, said OCHA.
Obstacles to chronic help delivery
Meanwhile, humanitarian efforts continue to face chronic obstacles. While a net of aid enters the Gaza Strip torn by the war, great challenges remain, according to the ochha Last situation report.
Between August 17 and 30, the partners continued daily convoys to raise humanitarian food aid of Kerem Shalom and Zikim level crossings, bringing more than 6,900 metric tonnes of wheat flour, food plots and loose food supplies in Gaza by the uncoordinated aid mechanism, OCHA reported.
“However, almost all this aid was unloaded by hungry crowds or looted by groups organized along the convoy tracks, preventing targeted household distributions and delivery to partner warehouses,” said the United Nations Agency.
Since July 20, when regular food freight shipments of Gaza level passages have resumed, less than 40% of the 2,000 metric tonnes of food supplies required daily to meet the basic needs of humanitarian assistance could enter the band, said OCHA.
“” Every day, civilians continue to be killed and injured by military forces or due to violence that bursts among the desperate crowds while trying to access the aidParticularly in the militarized area near the control points awaiting convoys of aid and on non -humanitarian militarized distribution sites, “said the United Nations Agency.
“Two percent of food aid have reached warehouses”
On August 30, 99 kitchens supported by 19 partners were preparing and distributed 468,000 meals a day across the Gaza Strip, with 155,000 in the north and 313,000 in the center and south of Gaza, according to the OCHA report.
“The partners relied on both percent of food aid which has safely reached warehouses, associated with locally guaranteed resources on the markets,” said the United Nations Agency.
“While representing an increase of 80% compared to the 260,000 daily meals prepared in early August, this remains well below the million meals produced in April with the stocks of humanitarian and commercial food and the cooking gas entered during the ceasefire.”
Families and children looking for food in community cuisine in the west of the city of Gaza at the end of July. (deposit)
Famine response
The UN and the partners continued the response efforts to the integrated famine are presented in the heels of the report of world hunger experts supported by the UN to find famine conditions in certain parts of Gaza last month.
The efforts included the scaling of the supply of prepared meals, the promotion of small -scale gardening initiatives and community oven, expanding cash and good assistance and strengthening of real -time monitoring and analysis systems.
“Intense advocacy continues with the Israeli authorities to increase the volume of humanitarian and commercial products approved for entry, emphasizing fresh products and enriched foods, nutrition, health and cooking gas,” OCHA said in his report.
Access to drinking water in the Gaza Strip has been seriously compromised due to the current war.
New Critic supplies and shortages
For the first time in more than five months, the fodder concentrated for livestock owners entered Gaza. About 60 metric tonnes were distributed to 600 cattle holders in Deir al-Balah, Ocha said.
However, despite sustained plea, the cooking gas has not entered Gaza for more than five months and is no longer available on the markets, said the United Nations Agency.
“Firewood has also become more and more unaffordable,” said the agency. “Many people are reduced to the use of waste and the racket of wood as alternative sources of cooking, to the exacerbation of health and environmental risks.”
Meanwhile, the United Nations Agency for Palestinian Refugees ”(UNRWA) Health establishments continue to serve around 132,000 patients with non -transmitted diseases despite disastrous medical supplies shortages. Insulin stocks will be exhausted in one to two weeks, leaving at least 16,000 diabetic patients without essential part of their treatment, OCHA reported.
Access to clean water is seriously limited. At the same time, hospitals remain missing from essential supplies and continue to face overcrowding while daily attacks see an increase in the number of deaths and injured.
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