The head of the United Nations agency supporting Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, warned on Monday that a breakdown of civil order in Gaza had allowed widespread looting and smuggling, and blocked aid deliveries.
More than eight months of war have led to desperate humanitarian conditions in the besieged Palestinian territory and repeated UN warnings of man-made famine there.
Speaking on the situation at a closed-door address in Geneva, UNRWA’s chief, Philippe Lazzarini, said Gaza has been decimated. He also labelled the situation as unprecedented failures of humanity in a territory marked by decades of violence.
The crisis escalated after Hamas’s October 7 attack inside Israel, which resulted in the deaths of 1,194 people, mostly civilians, according to an AFP tally based on official Israeli figures.
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Israel’s relentless retaliatory military campaign in Gaza since then has killed at least 37,626 people, also mostly civilians, according to the territory’s health ministry.
