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Commenting on the brand new report on the built-in classification of the meals security section (IPC) that launches the alarm on the approaching famine in Gaza, Paolo Pezzati, a spokesperson for the humanitarian crises of Oxfam Italia, stated: “If the war continues and the entry of food and other essential assets that the population is almost completely deprived will not be allowed, the famine will be inevitable and will be one of the most serious in the world. The international community assists the immense suffering that affect over 2 million people, largely children, without taking a step. For over 2 months, the total siege imposed by Israel on Gaza has prevents the entry of any supply: not only food, but also clean water and medicines, while thousands of trucks loaded with humanitarian aid ready to be distributed are blocked at the frontier crossings. Gaza’s hungry is deliberated, finely designed, not accidental and it is therefore inconceivable to allow it to happen ».

“Our operators and companions contained in the Striscia – defined Pezzati – are witnesses of scenes which are exhausting to explain: total households who deteriorate and starve, youngsters so denulating that they not even have the energy to cry, total communities that haven’t any water or meals. In a refugee camp the place we distributed weeks in the past the newest meals packs obtainable, simply 2 out of 500 households in the meanwhile nonetheless have some flour to make bread ».

To that is added the Israel plan to militarize the supply of humanitarian support. “It is an evident violation of international humanitarian law, which risks leading to humanitarian catastrophe – it was the conclusion of Pezzati – transforming the supply of aid into a control tool not only puts civilians even more in danger, but compromises the neutrality of humanitarian work, risking to bring chaos inside Gaza, with the inevitable, further suffering for the population. Staying silent in the face of what is happening, it means making it accomplices. For this reason Oxfam launches an urgent appeal to the international community, including Italy, for an action that brings to a ceased immediate and permanent fire, to the release of the hostages and prisoners detained illegally, at the end of the siege on Gaza, to the full humanitarian access for the population and finally consider Israel responsible for the use of hunger as a weapon of war “.