The humanitarian state of affairs in Gaza is dire, and there are no safe zones in the Palestinian enclave, mentioned Professor Michael Lynk, a former United Nations (UN) particular rapporteur on human rights within the occupied Palestinian territory.
International assist organisations are calling for a sustained ceasefire amid the deteriorating humanitarian situation in Gaza, warning that civilians are operating out of locations to flee to.
On so-called “protected zones” for civilians within the Gaza Strip to flee Israeli bombing, Prof Lynk mentioned these are areas “with completely no services to have the ability to deal with lots of of 1000’s or much more than one million Palestinian refugees”.
“There is no place to have the ability to feed them, to offer them water, to offer sanitation, (and) to offer any form of shelter now that we’re approaching the Mediterranean winter,” he informed CNA’s Asia First on Wednesday (Dec 6).
“Now we have virtually 2 million folks concentrated within the far south, within the midst of heavy preventing, with the Israeli military coming south and many of the Hamas battalions nonetheless in place and able to battle them.”
