1/11 Everyone in Gaza feels as if they have been put on death row. If not killed by bombs or bullets, they are slowly suffocating from a lack of the basic means of survival. The only difference is the speed at which you die. The world has failed #Gaza. A🧵…
2/11 Palestinians in Gaza have experienced more than a year of deprivation, destruction, death and displacement. Survivors have told us @UNOCHA that they were the unlucky ones because they did not die with the rest of their family.
3/11 Gaza now has the highest cohort of child amputees in the world. Tens of thousands of Palestinians have life-altering injuries. Yet relentless bombardments continue, including in areas to which Israeli forces have ordered Palestinians to go – which makes up only 19% of Gaza
4/11 Mothers tell us how their children can’t sleep at night as rats scurry over them in their weather-worn tents, amid rubble and rubbish; rain will rip through these tents in winter. Crammed up against the shoreline, there is nowhere left to go but into the sea.
5/11 The average amount of water Palestinians in Gaza can access in a day is the equivalent of one toilet flush for those of us lucky enough to have a functioning sanitation system. In Gaza, raw sewage runs in streets and between tents, spreading disease.
6/11 In North Gaza, tens of thousands have been forced out of their homes and those remaining are besieged. Shelters have been burnt down. Hospitals hit. Men and women separated. All over again, the necessities to sustain life are being destroyed and everyone is at risk of dying
7/11 Humanitarians are left to pick up the pieces. Sometimes, quite literally. We regularly escort ambulances to collect bodies, often eaten by dogs, of those killed by Israeli forces near their checkpoints. Without UN escort, ambulances fear being shelled or shot.
8/11 We've tried to help rescue-workers reach people whose cries for help from under the rubble eventually fell silent. After digging through rubble with bare hands, because fuel isn't allowed by Israel for the equipment, civil defense volunteers often retrieve only dead bodies
9/11 In October 2023 Israeli authorities announced a “complete siege” on Gaza and cut off of all supplies essential for life in the strip. Since then, everything that humanitarians have been able to deliver has been a negotiated exception.
10/11 While aid should be scaled up, we’re obstructed. Unpredictable supply, insecurity and regular #AccessDenied mean basic needs aren’t even close to being met. @UNRWA risks being dismantled placing more lives at stake. Our legs have been broken and we’re being forced to jump.
11/11 Gaza has been made unlivable. Those with power to change the situation lack the will or courage to do so. Humanitarian assistance is not the solution to political failures. These atrocities must end, ICJ measures implemented, and perpetrators held to account. #CeasefireNOW
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