The United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS)
Déclaration conjointe des Nations Unies : le monde doit agir sans plus attendre pour sauver la population palestinienne à Gaza
Déclaration conjointe de Jorge Moreira da Silva, Secrétaire général adjoint des Nations Unies et Directeur exécutif de l’UNOPS, et ses homologues du Bureau des Nations Unies pour la coordination des affaires humanitaires, du Fonds des Nations Unies pour l’enfance, de l’Office de secours et de travaux des Nations Unies pour les réfugiés de Palestine dans le Proche-Orient, du Programme alimentaire mondial, de l’Organisation mondiale de la Santé et de l’Organisation internationale pour les migrations, sur la crise humanitaire en cours à Gaza (en anglais).
(New York, Geneva, Rome, Amman, Copenhagen) — For over a month, no commercial or humanitarian supplies have entered Gaza due to the Israeli siege.
More than 2.1 million people are trapped, bombed and starved again, while, at crossing points, food is rotting, medicine, fuel and shelter supplies are piling up, and vital equipment is stuck.
Just a few days ago, the 25 bakeries supported by the World Food Programme during the ceasefire had to close due to flour and cooking gas shortages.
Over 1,000 children have reportedly been killed or injured in just the first week after the breakdown of the ceasefire, the highest one-week death toll among children in Gaza in the past year.
The partially functional health system is overwhelmed. Essential medical and trauma supplies are rapidly running out, threatening to reverse hard-won progress in keeping the health system operational.
The latest ceasefire allowed us to achieve in 60 days what bombs, obstruction and lootings prevented us from doing in 470 days of war: life-saving supplies reaching nearly every part of Gaza.
While this offered a short respite, assertions that there is now enough food to feed all Palestinians in Gaza defy logic and humanity.
We are witnessing acts of war in Gaza that show an utter disregard for human life and bear the hallmarks of atrocity crimes.
New Israeli displacement orders have forced hundreds of thousands of Palestinians to flee yet again, with no safe place to go.
No one is safe. At least 408 humanitarian workers, including over 280 from UNRWA, have been killed since October 2023.
We are particularly alarmed by recent statements from Israeli authorities about seizing, annexing and dividing territory, and about transferring Palestinians outside Gaza.
With the tightened Israeli blockade on Gaza now in its second month, we appeal to world leaders to act – firmly, urgently and decisively – to ensure the basic principles of international humanitarian law are upheld.
Protect civilians. Facilitate aid. Release hostages. Renew a ceasefire.
