Al Jazeera reports that Palestinian NGOs and professional unions are holding a press conference in Ramallah on the catastrophic situation in Gaza.

A video recorded by Amjad Al-Shawa, director of the Network of Non-Governmental Organisations in Deir el-Balah, is currently being shown.

“What is required now is to declare Gaza Strip as a famine-stricken zone”, he says.

He explains that sewage water has overflowed between tents, leaving people without any water supply. The situation, he says, is getting more dire by the minute and is made worse by the “ruthless, merciless bombardment by the Israeli warplanes”.

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