UN Commissioner: Israel must allow aid into Gaza immediately and unconditionally.

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk called on Israel to immediately and unconditionally allow humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip for all those in need, stressing that the displacement orders and Israeli attacks on the Deir al-Balah area in central Gaza have deepened the suffering of the starving.

"It seemed the nightmare in Gaza couldn't get any worse, but it is," Türk added. He called on Israel, as the occupying power, to ensure food and medical supplies for the population, reminding it that its displacement of people living under occupation is a war crime.

The UN official also criticized the Israeli military operation in Deir al-Balah, stressing that Israeli raids and operations will increase the number of civilian casualties and lead to greater destruction of infrastructure in Deir al-Balah. He noted that the targeted area includes humanitarian organizations, medical facilities, warehouses, and vital infrastructure.

He pointed out that "the permanent displacement of persons living under occupation constitutes an unlawful transfer and a war crime, and may, under certain circumstances, constitute a crime against humanity."

Worst ever

For his part, Jonathan Whittall, head of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in the occupied Palestinian territory, said that the situation in the Gaza Strip is the worst it has ever been, with malnutrition cases continuing to rise.

The Israeli occupation army continues to target starving and displaced Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. The Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) said that the Palestinian people are dying of hunger and that it is time to break the restrictions, open the crossings, and provide relief to the starving people in Gaza.

In the same context, Jonathan Whittall, head of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in the occupied Palestinian territories, said that the situation in the Gaza Strip is the worst it has ever been, with malnutrition cases continuing to rise.

He pointed out that more than two million people are crowded into a small area of no more than 12% of the Gaza Strip, without food or clean water.

He added that those who survived the bombing and gunfire now face the threat of starvation, noting that starving people are arriving at hospitals as if they were wounded, given the collapse of the health system and its lack of basic supplies.

Jonathan also stressed that the scale of the suffering in Gaza reflects a level of boundless brutality.

For its part, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) announced that one in every 10 children in the Gaza Strip examined in its clinics suffers from malnutrition, reflecting the extent of the worsening humanitarian crisis in the Strip.