The Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) has called for the release of detained PRCS workers by the Israeli regime, emphasizing the urgency of the situation in the occupied Palestinian lands, specifically Gaza.
The PRCS, on Saturday, urged the international community to apply pressure on the Israeli occupation authorities to secure the immediate release of Awni Khattab, the head of the PRCS ambulance center in Khan Younis, who has been held for over a month.
“More than a month has passed since the arrest of our colleague Awni Khattab, head of the PRCS ambulance center in Khan Younis,” PRCS said on X, formerly Twitter, adding, “We urge the international community to exert pressure on the occupation authorities for the immediate release of our teams and to ensure their protection.”
PRCS pointed out that the Israeli forces continue to incarcerate Red Crescent workers based in the Jabalia ambulance center in northern Gaza.
Meanwhile, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres denounced the Israeli regime’s blocking the transfer of humanitarian aid to the besieged Palestinian territory amid the Zionist forces’ ongoing genocidal war against the Gaza Strip.
“The real problem is that the way Israel is conducting this offensive is creating massive obstacles to the distribution of humanitarian aid inside Gaza,” the UN chief said on Friday.
“An effective aid operation in Gaza requires security staff who can work in safety, logistical capacity, and the resumption of commercial activity. These four elements do not exist,” Guterres said.
He made the remarks as the atrocious Zionists continued their months-long war against the Palestinian territory since October 7, following a surprise operation staged by the coastal sliver’s resistance groups.
Gaza health officials say over 20,000 people, including some 8,000 children and 6,200 women, have been killed in the war so far.
In addition to the incessant and indiscriminate attacks on Gaza, Israel has cut off the flow of basic supplies, such as water, electricity, medicines, and fuel into one of the world’s most densely-populated territories that house over two million Palestinians.
A report released on Thursday by 23 UN and humanitarian agencies showed that Gaza’s entire population is in a food crisis, or worse, facing starvation, and 576,600 of them were in the “catastrophic” stage.
The United Nations World Food Program said 90 percent of the people in the Palestinian territory were regularly going without food for a full day.
“A humanitarian ceasefire is the only way to begin to meet the desperate needs of people in Gaza and end their ongoing nightmare,” Guterres told reporters.
He added the Gazans face “a humanitarian catastrophe” and warned that a total collapse of the humanitarian support system would lead to “a complete breakdown of public order and increased pressure for mass displacement into Egypt.”
Source: Press TV
