Jordan's Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi warned today, Tuesday, of a "greater humanitarian catastrophe" in Gaza if the international community does not take a "firm and strict" stance against Israel to stop the war and allow aid to enter. Safadi stated in a joint press conference with the Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), Philippe Lazzarini: "Without a firm, strict, genuine, clear, and immediate position from the international community that obligates Israel to fulfill its responsibilities as an occupying power, to allow aid in, to open all crossings, and to ensure protection for UN organizations, we will find ourselves facing a humanitarian disaster greater than the current catastrophe, which modern history has not witnessed." He emphasized that "the amount of aid reaching Gaza does not meet the minimum needs."
Lazzarini remarked that "there are about 350,000 people back in the streets again, and as we know, since the beginning of the war, nearly all of Gaza's population has been displaced multiple times, indicating that there is no safe place at all in the Gaza Strip." He added, "Today, we have more than one million people under the age of 18 in Gaza, including over 600,000 of school age, all living among the rubble and suffering from deep trauma." Both sides warned that the situation continues to deteriorate "tragically."
