UN agencies: everyone in Gaza is starving as diseases spread

The warnings on Sunday are from the United Nations agencies, including the one that serves Palestinian refugees, UNRWA and the food program, WFP, which together highlighted the threat of hunger and disease in the overcrowded areas, where tens of thousands of people have taken shelter. to avoid Israeli bomb attacks in the central and northern Gaza area . WFP has said through its post on its X website that "Everyone in Gaza is hungry! Eating one meal a day is normal and every day someone is struggling to make ends meet." The statement added that "People often overcome hunger or go to bed hungry. Adults do not eat so that their children can eat ." The United Nations Health Organization in the world, WHO is also raising the voice of the negative effects of the ongoing conflict, saying that there is a great risk of epidemics spreading . Since October 7, 2023 when the Israeli regime launched a war of genocide against the Palestinians, there have been 179,000 cases of respiratory diseases, 136,000 cases of diarrhea among children under the age of five, and 55,400 cases of ulcers. The situation in the Gaza Strip following the ongoing attack by Israel So far 22,000 Palestinians have been martyred due to the attacks of the Zionist regime in Gaza, more than 70 percent of them being women and children . At the same time, WHO in its new statement says that another 7,000 people are currently missing or buried in the rubble . The report also states that 600 people have been killed following 300 attacks on hospitals since October 7, attacks that have destroyed 26 hospitals and 38 ambulances . According to WHO, Of the 1.93 million people displaced from their homes in Gaza, 52,000 are pregnant women who give birth to 180 children every day. It has also been stated that 1,100 patients need kidney cleaning services every day, 71,000 are diabetic and 225,000 need treatment to deal with high blood pressure .