The humanitarian situation in the northern Gaza Strip is reaching crisis levels, with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the United Nations warning of imminent starvation.
About 15,000 people have been living under siege in areas of the northern Gaza Strip without access to food, water, hospitals or essential supplies, since Israeli forces raided the area on 28 September in a deadly military offensive aimed at pushing Palestinian missiles out of range of the Israeli town of Sderot.
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is already there," said Nasr. "You are speaking about an average of seven to 10 family members in one house, so who can have food supplies that are sufficient for more than 10 days in the house? They have no electricity, so food supplies cannot be maintained, and people are running out."
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Aggravating the problem is the fact that the Red Cross has not been granted secure access to the area by the Israelis, while the UN has not been granted access at all.
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