Israel-Hamas cessation of fire must hold or gaza will face hunger again, says the UN humanitarian chief

Hunger is mainly prevented in Gauze as a an increase in help enters the territory during a fragile trucesaid the United Nations Humanitarian Chief on Sunday. But he warned that the threat could quickly return if the truce collapsed.

Tom Fletcher spoke with Associated Press after a two -day visit to Gazi, where hundreds of trucks carried by humanitarian aid arrived every day since the truce began on January 19th.

“I think the threat of hunger is generally prevented,” Fletcher said in Cairo. “These starvation levels were reduced from where they were before the truce.”

He said the concern is growing around whether the cessation of fire could be extended and the conversations should start in his difficulty phase. Six weeks the first phase is halfway.

As part of the Agreement, Israel said that each day he would allow 600 trucks to help in Gaza, which is a great increase after a months -long official for assistance that expressed frustration due to delays and uncertainty brakes and entry and distribution of food, medicines and other poorly necessary items.

The UN Humanitarian Office has announced that more than 12,600 trucks have entered into Gaza since the truce came into force.

Fletcher also called on Hamas, who quickly reaffirmed his control over the territory in hours after the truce came into force, and Israel adhered to an agreement that “saved so much life.”

“The conditions are still terrible, and people are still hungry,” he said. “If the fire falls falls, if the fire break breaks down, these (hungry) conditions will return again very quickly.”

The internationally recognized vulture threshold for hunger is Two or more deaths a day to 10,000 people.

Months before the current ceremony, the monitors for food safety, the UN -Ai officials were others Warning to a possible hunger In parts of the devastated gauze, especially north, which was mostly isolated from the earliest weeks of the 16-month war. Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians managed to return to the north under a dedication fire.

“We can’t … sit and just let these people starve to death,” Cindy McCainThe American UN World Food Program Chief, CBS told December. The Biden Administration has repeatedly invited Israel to allow more help to help and warned that this success could be initiated by US limitations to military support.

Fletcher said that more than 2 million people were crucial for the territory of more than 2 million people, more food and medical supplies, most of them displaced, and he expressed concern about the disease epidemic due to the lack of basic health supplies. He also called for a scanning of the tent delivery and other shelters to those who returned to their home areas, as winter continues.

“We have to get tens of thousands of tents very quickly, so people moving back, especially moving back to the north, are able to get away from these conditions,” he said.

Fletcher entered the Palestinian territory through Erez the transition between Israel and the northern Gaza, where he said he was driving through “bombarded, flattened and shredded” areas.

“You can’t see the difference between a school or a hospital or a house,” he said in the north.

He said he saw people trying to find where their homes were and collect bodies of loved ones from the ruins. He also saw dogs looking for corpses in the ruins.

“It’s a horror movie. It’s a horror show,” he said. “It breaks your heart over and over again. Take miles and miles, and this is all you see.”

Fletcher admitted that some Palestinians were angry with the international community over the war and his response.

“There were despair and anger. And I can understand the anger in the world that it happened to them,” he said. “But there was also a feeling of defiance. People said,” We will return to our homes. We will return to the places we lived for generations and we will renew ourselves. “