UN voice from Gaza Syrian media personality Dr. Intikhab Qalfa, Germany 🇩🇪

 

When Gaza was burning, children were starving, and hospitals were collapsing, did you move?

UN voice from Gaza

Syrian media personality Dr. Intikhab Qalfa, Germany 🇩🇪

From Deir al-Balah in the Gaza Strip, Olga Cherevko of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) spoke about the deteriorating situation in the Strip. She said Gaza City received a "death sentence" on Tuesday: leave or be killed.

Cherevko was speaking at a press conference in New York via video link from Gaza, referring to the order issued by Israeli authorities for hundreds of thousands of exhausted residents to leave an already overcrowded area where there is no room for more.

In this article, we leave room for Olga Cherevko, spokesperson for the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, to describe the situation as she sees it in the Gaza Strip.

A friend sent me a text message yesterday saying he had tried to find a place to evacuate in the south but had been unable to. His 8-year-old cousin was killed in an Israeli airstrike last week, along with several other children, while waiting for bread.

His daughter, who is now two years old and has known nothing but war in her young life, rushes under the table at the charity kitchen run by her father as soon as a bomb falls nearby, where he continues to feed thousands of people every day.

Gaza does not need pity, but it needs an end to this horrific violence.

The stench of death is everywhere, a horrific reminder that the rubble conceals the remains of mothers, fathers, and children. People who laughed, cried, and dreamed. Their lives were cut short by the deadly machinery of war, many of whom will never be found.

On our way back to Gaza yesterday, we found barely passable roads as exhausted people crowded around our convoy, pleading for an end to this horror.

A little girl walking beside her father waved to us as we passed her family. Will she survive this hell? Will the world leaders who can stop this war see that this child deserves peace? Her life is in the hands of those who choose to act.

Parents struggle to protect their children from violence, hunger, and fear. Fleeing families fill the streets, carrying their children, unsure where to turn because all other avenues have run out.

The race against time, against death, against the spread of famine, makes us aid workers feel like we are running through quicksand, as relief convoys are often refused, delayed, or obstructed by the Israeli authorities.

But amid this suffering, humanity shines through. Palestinian doctors, nurses, and paramedics work around the clock, often without pay, medicine, or electricity.

Humanitarian workers from UN agencies, the Red Cross, and local and international NGOs are delivering food, medicine, and clean water under fire.

Ordinary people share what little they have with strangers. In every caring step, they demonstrate a refusal to allow cruelty to shape the future, proving that the human spirit can endure even in the darkest of times.

Some people ask me if I have any hope left. Hope may be all we have left, so we have to nurture it.

The people of Gaza are not asking for charity, but for their right to live in safety, dignity, and peace. Our collective humanity—you and I—demands that we act now.

History will judge us not only by the speeches we give, but also by our actions. When Gaza burned, children starved, and hospitals collapsed, did you act?

Today and every day, there is a new opportunity for the international community to translate words into action. Don't miss it, it may be the last.

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