“What we are seeing is what we predicted, and not because we are magicians, but because we know by experience,” he told Anadolu Agency, adding that hundreds of thousands of Palestinians are in shelters without access to running water, proper food and adequate sanitation.
“It is beyond the catastrophic,” said Della Longa.
“We knew since the beginning that the lack of food, the lack of clean water, lack of shelter, lack of proper shelter, with running water, and sanitation would have led to what is happening now, which means respiratory diseases, diarrhea is spreading like a lion’s fire among the population,” he said.
Palestinians at the Jabalia refugee camp market in the northern Gaza Strip expressed their suffering as they looked to secure daily food sustenance amid dire shortages of flour and food in the markets and an absence of humanitarian aid, Al Jazeera reports.
“We have no food, only some rice. We do not have flour. There is crowding over the available quantities,” AJ reports one of the Gazans as saying.
According to Reuters, asked if there could be no normal ties without a path to a credible and irreversible Palestinian state, Prince Saud told CNN: “That’s the only way we’re going to get the benefit. So, yes, because we need stability and only stability will come through resolving the Palestinian issue.”
Israeli public should know war with Hezbollah would be ‘difficult’: Israeli general
Israeli Reserve Major-General Eyal Ben-Reuven has spoken to Israel’s Maariv newspaper about the possibility of starting a war against the Lebanese armed group, Hezbollah.
According to Al Jazeera, he said Israel’s political leadership should tell the public that Hezbollah is stronger than Hamas and that a war with it would be “difficult”.
An Israeli strike on a car in southern Lebanon has killed one person, Lebanese state media said, as the Gaza conflict stokes tensions between Israel and Hamas ally Hezbollah, AFP reports.
“The strike that targeted a car in Kafra killed one person while others suffered moderate and minor injuries,” Lebanon’s official National News Agency said. Kafra is a village not far from the Israeli border.
The strike was carried out by an Israeli drone close to an army checkpoint, destroying a four-wheel drive vehicle and setting another vehicle on fire, NNA said.
A security source told AFP that no Lebanese soldiers had been injured or killed in the strike.
Ex-Iraq premier meets US envoy after missile strike
The US ambassador to Iraq has met with former prime minister Nuri al-Maliki, the Iraqi politician’s office said, a day after pro-Iran militants struck US forces in the country.
According to AFP, the meeting in Baghdad with Ambassador Alina Romanowski comes amid soaring regional tensions, the fallout from more than three months of conflict between US ally Israel and Hamas, supported by Tehran.
Maliki, an influential figure in Iraqi politics and one of the top leaders of a pro-Iranian bloc, discussed with Romanowski “the future of bilateral relations” with the United States and “the escalation in regional tensions”, a statement from his office said.
He stressed “the importance of strengthening the ties of friendship and cooperation” between Baghdad and Washington, the statement added.
Maliki also warned against “the expansion of the war” with “multiple crises the region faces” in the Palestinian territories, Lebanon, the Red Sea, Syria, and Iraq. He called for “swift action to reduce tensions and put an end to mutual attacks”.
French warship treats around 1,000 injured Gazans off Egyptian shore
About 1,000 people from Gaza have been treated in a French field hospital aboard a ship off the coast of Egypt, its captain said, providing care for some as health infrastructure in the war-devastated enclave collapses.
According to Reuters, the Dixmude, a French helicopter carrier, has been docked in the Egyptian port of al-Arish, 50 km (30 miles) west of the Gaza Strip, since November. The vessel is equipped with wards, operating theatres and 70 medical staff.
Nearly 120 injured people have been hospitalised on board, while hundreds more have been seen for outpatient consultations, including follow-ups on injuries and psychiatric issues, said Captain Alexandre Blonce, calling it an “unprecedented mission”.