Gaza City: Head of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in the occupied Palestinian territory, Jonathan Whittall, warned that as global attention shifts elsewhere, people in Gaza are being killed while trying to access food, stating: 'The attempt to survive is being met with a death sentence.'
According to Palestine News and Information Agency - WAFA, Whittall described the situation in Gaza as carnage, characterizing it as weaponized hunger and forced displacement. He emphasized that these actions are resulting in a death sentence for those simply trying to survive and suggested that it could lead to the erasure of Palestinian life from Gaza.
He further called for accountability for the crimes being committed and urged for concrete political and economic pressure from states to bring the situation to an end. Whittall stressed the need for a lasting ceasefire, in alignment with the rulings by the International Court of Justice.
Whittall concluded by stating that these actions are the bare minimum required and warned that inaction enables atrocities that are measured in human lives.