Fletcher, who directs UN humanitarian efforts and is the head of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Aid (OCHA), completed a two-day visit to Gaza on Sunday.
The first phase of the ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war entered into force on 19 January and is due to proceed until the beginning of March. However, it is uncertain to extend the agreement that provides for a permanent truce. 1 of the main points in dispute is to find who will regulation the Gaza Strip. Israel does not agree that Hamas should stay in power, which erstwhile the truce has begun regained control of this territory.
One of the conditions for ceasefire, which has been mostly respected so far, is to increase the supply of humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip.
Thousands of aid supplies to Gaza
According to the United Nations, over 12.6 1000 trucks have entered the Gaza Strip for 3 weeks. Throughout December, about 3,000 of them arrived.
Against the introduction of a ceasefire, global and aid organisations warned that without expanding supplies to the people of Gaza, especially to its most devastated northern part, famine was at stake.
However, Fletcher warned that the situation was inactive very difficult. "There are terrible conditions here, people are inactive hungry," said the UN Head of Humanitarian Action. He stressed that more supplies of food and medicines are needed now, as well as tents and another shelters for refugees who have returned to their war-torn towns.
Giant destruction, lots of casualties.
The Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations besides called on both parties to comply with the terms of the agreement that "saved so many people."
The Gaza Strip is ruined by a war lasting more than 15 months. According to the UN, more than 2 thirds of all buildings were destroyed or damaged. 90 percent of the about 2.1 million Gaza residents became interior refugees. Thanks to the truce hundreds of thousands of them returned to their hometowns, but mostly debris was found there.
Over 47,000 Palestinians were killed in the war, and the death balance is increased regular by bodies of the dead extracted from the ruins. Israel launched an offensive in the Gaza Strip after a terrorist attack ruling this Hamas territory, in which about 1,200 people were killed and 251 were kidnapped. any of the hostages are inactive in custody.
