An official from the municipality of Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip has spoken to Al Jazeera Arabic about the dire humanitarian situation in the city.

Here are a few of the comments:

• The northern Gaza Strip suffers from a lack of sufficient quantities of diesel and rubble removal machinery.
• There is no clean drinking water in the northern Gaza Strip and sewage is spreading among the people.
• Municipalities cannot manage the crisis alone and need international support. No tents, mobile homes or rubble-clearing machinery have entered the northern Gaza Strip.
• The international community is standing by as a spectator to the humanitarian tragedy in Gaza.
• Israel is trying to thwart the ceasefire by not adhering to the humanitarian protocol.
• More than 90 per cent of Gaza’s population does not have access to water and the lack of sanitation is widespread in most areas.