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The franceinfo Talk looks at the humanitarian aid which is trickling into the Gaza Strip. Ludo Pauchant receives Jean-François Corty, vice-president of Médecins du Monde and Julia Grignon, scientific director of IRSEM, specialist in international humanitarian law.
This Tuesday, October 31, on the 22nd day of the conflict, the population in the Gaza Strip lack of food, healthcare, fuel and electricity. Israel allows almost nothing to pass, with humanitarian trucks arriving dropper in the zone.
Massive bombings in the Gaza Strip this weekend
During the night from Friday to Saturday, October 28, the Gaza Strip experienced a night of strikes unprecedented. THE Israeli bombings have increased “very significantly”, specified the IDF. Rocket fire in a dark night, communications and internet having been cut in the area, according to the Hamas government. The network returned around 5 a.m. Sunday.
The population, having lived “hell” in recent days, has found itself cut off from the world, the number of dead and injured raising fears of a major humanitarian crisis. The lack of water, food, electricity, medicines, but above all the cutoff of communications has greatly worried the NGOswho have lost all connection with their teams on site.
THE head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugeesPhilippe Lazzarini, declared that humanitarian aid, which is struggling to arrive through the Rafah border post “is nothing compared to the needs of more than two million people trapped in Gaza”. The latter demanded a “immediate humanitarian ceasefire” and called on members of the United Nations Security Council for help.