DUBAI: Relentless attacks against infrastructure and cold weather in Gaza are making the Palestinian enclave \u201ccompletely uninhabitable,\u201d the UN human rights office warned on Friday.
\n\u201cI fear that many more civilians will die,\u201d said Ajith Sunghay, head of the UN Human Rights Office for the Occupied Palestinian Territory.
\n\u201cThe continued attacks on specially protected facilities, such as hospitals, will kill civilians, and there will be a further, massive impact on access to health care, safety and security in general of Palestinians.\u201d
\nIsrael\u2019s offensive has killed more than 26,000 Palestinians, according to Gaza health authorities, with thousands more feared buried under rubble and most of the 2.3 million residents displaced, facing acute shortages of food, water and medicine.
\nIsrael launched its offensive in the wake of an Oct. 7 rampage by Hamas militants who killed 1,200 people and seized 240 hostages.
\nSunghay said his office was also concerned about the impact of rainy and cold weather in Gaza.
\n\u201cIt was entirely predictable at this time of the year, and risks making an already unsanitary situation completely uninhabitable for the people,\u201d he said.
\n\u201cMost have no warm clothes or blankets. Northern Gaza, where IDF (Israel Defense Forces) bombardment continues, is barely accessible, even to provide basic humanitarian aid.\u201d
\nSunghay said it would be \u201cdisastrous\u201d if the bombardment or the street-to-street fight taking place in Khan Younis moved further south to Rafah, where some 1.3 million people are now massed in the town bordering Egypt in an attempt to evade the Israeli assault.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
DUBAI: Relentless attacks against infrastructure and cold weather in Gaza are making the Palestinian enclave \u201ccompletely uninhabitable,\u201d the UN human rights office warned on Friday. \u201cI fear that many more civilians will die,\u201d said Ajith Sunghay, head of the UN Human Rights Office for the Occupied Palestinian Territory. \u201cThe continued attacks on specially protected facilities, …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":60022,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60018"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60024,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60018\/revisions\/60024"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}