Aid agencies called for vital humanitarian supplies to be allowed into the Gaza Strip, warning time was running out to save millions of people.
MANILA — Aid agencies on Monday called for vital humanitarian supplies to be allowed into the Gaza Strip, warning time was running out to save millions of people as water supplies dried up and food and fuel stocks dwindled.
But in doing so -- and cutting off water, food and fuel supplies until the conflict is over -- it has heaped extra pressure on a territory already struggling under a years-long blockade. A video on the group's official Telegram channel purported to show "one of the prisoners in Gaza" -- a young woman speaking Hebrew and receiving treatment to an arm injury.Watch more News on iWantTFC 'SMELL OF THE DEAD'
There are fears, too, that more bodies could lie under the rubble of collapsed buildings, as hospital mortuaries are overstretched and bodies have even been stored in an ice-cream truck. "The situation is catastrophic beyond what I could have imagined," said Jamil Abdullah, a Palestinian-Swede who is hoping to leave after being force to sleep on the street.
Lynn Hastings, UN humanitarian coordinator for the Palestinian territories, accused Israel of linking aid with the release of 199 hostages it says were taken by Hamas.The presence of hostages is complicating any ground offensive involving tens of thousands of regular Israeli troops and reservists, who are massed at the border waiting for the order go in.
Harrowing testimonies from survivors and horrific scenes of devastation have bolstered such fury against the group, which seeks the destruction of Israel and is proscribed as a terrorist organization in the US and Europe.
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