International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies’ spokesperson (IFRC), Tommaso Della Longa, has said the situation in Gaza is getting “worse and worse.”

“What we are seeing is what we predicted, and not because we are magicians, but because we know by experience,” he told Anadolu Agency, adding that hundreds of thousands of Palestinians are in shelters without access to running water, proper food and adequate sanitation.

“It is beyond the catastrophic,” said Della Longa.

“We knew since the beginning that the lack of food, the lack of clean water, lack of shelter, lack of proper shelter, with running water, and sanitation would have led to what is happening now, which means respiratory diseases, diarrhea is spreading like a lion’s fire among the population,” he said.