GAZA(Palestine Foundation Information Center) Three international organizations launched urgent appeals regarding the Israeli occupation forces’ (IOF) attacks on medical personnel, demolition of water wells, and continued prevention of food aid access to the residents of the Gaza Strip.
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) said in a statement on Monday that the IOF destroyed more than 15 wells throughout the Strip, leaving only 3 wells operating in Deir al-Balah, where water supplies have decreased by 85%.
Earlier, the Deir al-Balah municipality announced that about half of the Gaza Strip’s population lives in a narrow strip which has been repeatedly reduced over time by the IOF, leading to forced displacement of about 250,000 citizens and taking 25 shelters out of service.
Meanwhile, the World Food Program (WFP) said that food operations in the Gaza Strip face increasing challenges in light of the ongoing Israeli aggression, which exacerbates hunger-related needs.
The WFP called on Israel to immediately stop attacking Palestinian medical personnel, explaining their detention contributes to catastrophic deterioration of the health care system in the besieged Strip.
The WFP stressed the importance of allowing immediate access to humanitarian aid to vaccinate thousands of children in the Gaza Strip.
For its part, the Human Rights Watch organization called on the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court to investigate the Israeli attacks on medical personnel in Gaza and the violations against those detained among them.
The organization demanded that Israel must immediately stop the continued mistreatment of Palestinian medical personnel, quoting released doctors, nurses and paramedics as telling stories of mistreatment in Israeli prisons, including humiliation, beatings, forced stress positions, shackling and blindfolding for long hours, deprivation of medical care, rape and sexual assault.
