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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.Entire families, young children and the elderly have packed what belongings they can to flee to the southern Gaza Strip, bedding down in any available space, indoors and out.
The Hamas government in Gaza has recommended burying them in mass graves, while UNRWA said even body bags were in short supply. “There are corpses in the streets. Buildings are crashing down on their inhabitants. Blood is everywhere. The smell of the dead is everywhere.”US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has been shuttling between Middle Eastern capitals in recent days, hoping to coordinate efforts against Hamas while finding ways to alleviate Gaza’s humanitarian crisis.
In Israel, where rocket alert sirens blared and several blasts were heard in Jerusalem, Merav Leshem Gonen is anxiously waiting for news of her daughter, who was kidnapped at a music festival on October 7. “I have seen babies, women and men beheaded,” said Rabbi Israel Weiss, one of the leaders of the grim task to identify the victims using DNA samples, fingerprints and dental records.
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