UNS: James Elder, a Unicef spokesperson, says the situation in Gaza is “dire”.“It should break our hearts that it’s been allowed to get to this point,” he told Al Jazeera, adding that as soon as he walked into the hospital in Deir el-Balah, he found a little boy named Ali who was asleep in the family home five days ago when it was struck.
“He fell three floors and landed in rubble. I met his mother who said the two other siblings have been killed. This has gone on for 250 days,” Elder said.
Now Palestinians are living in “sweltering heat… in tents crammed together in a breathless space with 40-degree heat on sand,” he said. “They’re being denied aid, protection, dignity.”
Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has shared a video with testimonies from colleagues describing what life has been like in Gaza over the last few months.
One MSF logistician said despite the shelling and destruction, he has been looking for food for the last four months so that he and his children can survive, but they “still haven’t found anything”.
“We reached the point where we searched for … pigeon food, anything that we could eat,” he said.
“After about four or five months, some food became available — canned food and a small amount of lentils and rice. But the prices are extremely high.”
He added that he can’t find treatment for his hypertension and diabetes and that people in need of medication have resorted to using alternative herbal solutions.
