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The people of Gaza are being "suffocated" by the constant bombardment, a UN agency chief warned on Saturday. The head of UNRWA, the UN aid agency working in the Gaza Strip, Philippe Lazzarini, made the comments at an emergency summit of Arab and Islamic states in Riyadh.
Lazzarini said the ongoing bombing of Gaza, along with the siege, is suffocating Gaza and its people. He continued that more than 700,000 women, children and men now live in UNRWA schools and shelters.
" Basic services are being destroyed. Everything is running out – food, water, medicine and fuel. They keep a third of our health centers open and run mobile clinics. They send medicine to hospitals ," he said.
Lazzarini said Gazans feel de-humanized and abandoned. He urged the summit to support efforts to reach a humanitarian ceasefire, with strict adherence to international humanitarian law.
He also said that a meaningful and continuous flow of humanitarian aid is essential, but asserted that the logistics and verification of trucks from Israel is extremely difficult. They only allow a limited number of trucks into Gaza.
" We must increase the volume of aid and use other crossings, including those inside Israel, such as Kerem Abu Salem ," he said.
A significant number of Arab leaders are attending the emergency meeting in Riyadh on Saturday, titled the Extraordinary Joint Arab Islamic Summit. The summit is being organized by Saudi Arabia in response to "unprecedented circumstances in Gaza," according to a statement issued by the Saudi Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
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