UNICEF Official: Suffering, Destruction in Gaza ‘Beyond Description’
Uncivilized Israelien Authorities Have Made the Gaza Strip an Incubator of disease. Ten months into Israel's relentless onslaught, the war-torn Gaza Strip has become an incubator of disease amid a humanitarian and epidemiological crisis that Israel is closely following. Food shortages, crumbling infrastructure, a failing medical system, flowing sewage, waste buildup, and summer heat have turned the humanitarian crisis in Gaza into a serious epidemiological threat. [MORE]
From [HERE] Salim Oweis, a UNICEF official who recently returned from the Gaza Strip, said the reality in the Palestinian enclave is much worse than what people see in the media as Israel’s aggression on Gaza continues for the 311th day.
In an interview with Al Jazeera, Oweis, a communications officer at UNICEF’s Middle East and North Africa office, said, “We don’t see on the screens the depth of the deaths and destruction, the depths of people suffering and their daily struggles for the basics of the basics.”
“I was based in Deir el-Balah and Khan Younis and also north of Gaza, and to be honest, the more you move, the more suffering and destruction you see. The situation is really beyond description,” he said.
He described the impact of repeated attacks on schools as devastating.
“Those schools are not schools anymore. They are very basic shelters for so many families, and we have unfortunately seen in the last 10 months so many of those attacks on schools, on hospitals, on civilian infrastructure that children and families rely on, which makes life even more miserable.”