Alwaght- Palestinians in the Gaza Strip are enduring a calamitous humanitarian situation due to the 12-year-long Israeli blockade, which needs urgent action.
The Popular Committee to Lift the Siege on Gaza said that the international community needs to find practical solutions to the various humanitarian crises that Gaza is grappling with as a direct result of Israeli imposed sieged, the Palestinian Information Center reported Thursday.
Jamal al-Khudari, from the popular committee, said Gazans are enduring a “calamitous” humanitarian situation due to the 12-year-long Israeli blockade.
“International warnings as regards the situation in Gaza should be translated into projects on the ground”, he said.
“By 2020, Gaza will be an uninhabitable zone”, al-Khudari added.”The international community should force Israel to lift its illegal and immoral siege.”
A few hours earlier, the United Nation’s political chief Rosemary DiCarlo warned that the humanitarian situation in the blockaded Gaza Strip has further deteriorated as the enclave has been under blockade for more than a decade.
The Gaza Strip has been under an Israeli blockade since June 2007. Years of blockade, three major invasions and daily airstrikes against critical infrastructure have caused a decline in the standard of living as well as unprecedented levels of unemployment and unrelenting poverty.
