The United Nations reveals a survival crisis in Gaza, and London calls on Israel to stop the war.

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said that people in Gaza, half of whom are children, are facing a survival crisis. British Defense Secretary John Healy said that the targeting of Palestinians near an aid distribution center was intolerable.

According to the UN office, more than 632,000 people have been displaced again since March 18.

Earlier on Sunday, the Ministry of Health in Gaza announced that more than 200 Palestinians had arrived at hospitals, including 49 martyrs, five clinically dead, and approximately 30 in critical condition, following an Israeli airstrike targeting Palestinians heading to an aid distribution center run by an American company west of Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip.

The government media office in Gaza said that the Israeli occupation had transformed aid distribution sites from humanitarian relief points into mass killing traps, while Doctors Without Borders considered that Israel was using aid as a tool for forced population displacement.

Denunciation and demand

For his part, the British Defense Minister considered the targeting of Palestinians near an aid distribution center intolerable and reinforced the need for Israel to halt its operation, noting that his Israeli counterpart had been informed of this position.

Haley added that Israel must open the gates for aid to reach Palestinian civilians. He stressed the need for Israel to begin negotiations to achieve long-term peace.

He explained that his country provides full support to the American, Qatari, and Egyptian efforts to restore a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip.

Israel resumed its aggression on Gaza on March 18, after reneging on the ceasefire agreement. Its airstrikes since then have killed more than 4,117 people and injured more than 12,000, according to the Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip.

Since October 2023, the occupying army has been waging a war of extermination—according to international experts—against the residents of the Gaza Strip. During this war, more than 54,000 Palestinians have been killed, 124,000 injured, and nearly the entire population of the Strip has been displaced, amidst destruction unprecedented since World War II.