UN agency says ‘soon many more will die’ from Gaza siege

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The United Nations has warned that “many more will die” as a result of Israel’s ongoing siege of the Gaza Strip, saying basic services in the Palestinian territory were “crumbling”, AFP reports.

“As we speak people in Gaza are dying, they are not only dying from bombs and strikes, soon many more will die from the consequences of (the) siege imposed on the Gaza Strip,” said Philippe Lazzarini, commissioner general for the UN agency for Palestinian refugees.

“Basic services are crumbling, medicine is running out, food and water are running out, the streets of Gaza have started overflowing with sewage.”

 A Palestinian boy walks past as a woman makes traditional unleavened bread on an open fire at a shelter for displaced families mainly from the north of the Gaza Strip, at a UN-run school in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip on October 27. — AFP
A Palestinian boy walks past as a woman makes traditional unleavened bread on an open fire at a shelter for displaced families mainly from the north of the Gaza Strip, at a UN-run school in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip on October 27. — AFP

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