NEW YORK, BRONX (ORDO News) — The worst of the conflict between Israel and Gaza is yet to come, with the humanitarian situation becoming unbearable – schools, shelters and medical centers are being bombed, said UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Martin Griffiths.
“Civilians in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory have been suffering unbearable agony and devastation for a week now. I fear the worst is yet to come… The humanitarian situation in Gaza, already critical, is quickly becoming unbearable,” he said.
Griffiths added that homes, schools, shelters, health centers and places of worship were being “intensively bombed”, “entire residential areas were leveled” and aid workers were killed.
“In Gaza, families were bombed as they headed south along clogged and damaged roads following evacuation orders that left hundreds of thousands of people scrambling to escape but with nowhere to go,” the deputy secretary-general said.
He also warned that there was “grave concern” in Lebanon about the threat of the conflict escalating into the country.
On Friday, the official representative of the UN Secretary General, Stephane Dujarric, told our reporters that Israel ordered the population and UN staff in the north of the Gaza Strip to move to its southern part within 24 hours.
The organization called for the order to be lifted, saying that displacing 1.1 million people would have devastating humanitarian consequences. The Hamas– appointed authorities in that part of the Palestinian territories, as well as the Palestinian government in the West Bank, rejected Israel’s demand.
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