According to the UN Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), the situation has not improved at the Kerem Shalom checkpoint, which is the main entry point for food, fuel and medicine supplies.
The UN agency has expressed concern that ordinary Palestinians do not have enough food to eat and that aid reaching here is at its lowest level in months.
UNRWA said needy communities in northern Gaza continued to appeal for aid, with people feared to be trapped under rubble and aid workers being prevented from reaching casualty numbers.
UNRWA spokesman Louis Wateridge said displaced families in northern Gaza are desperate as they face dire conditions. People say their death and suffering is being broadcast live.
Thousands of civilians are in grave danger, according to a UN agency spokesman. Earlier, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Sunday expressed deep outrage at the death and destruction in northern Gaza, where the Israeli army renewed its offensive.
According to one estimate, the risk of famine remains in Gaza and more than 1.8 million Palestinians have recently experienced sudden food insecurity and the number of malnourished children is increasing.
Cut health services
According to the UNRWA spokesperson, ambulance services are suspended and civil protection teams have also stopped working. Sick and injured people do not have access to life-saving care services, families lack food, their homes are destroyed and there is no safe place to live.
Patients are reportedly dying due to power outages and doctors are having to prioritize saving patients as they do not have enough supplies to treat everyone.
A refugee camp in Jabalia, northern Gaza, has been without water for the seventh day in a row. UNRWA teams are also unable to use their water wells due to fuel shortages.
In this situation, people are forced to drink water from unsafe sources. According to UN agencies, more than 100 of the 450,000 people who have taken refuge in shelters are at risk of flooding.
Meanwhile, the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization said 15,000 cattle have died in Gaza so far, 95 percent of the total. Only 25 thousand sheep and 3 thousand goats are left.