The head of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Mirjana Spoljaric Egger, has issued a stark warning about the catastrophic humanitarian collapse unfolding in besieged Gaza, describing the conditions endured by Palestinians under Israeli aggression as “hell on earth.”

Speaking from the ICRC’s headquarters in Geneva, Spoljaric condemned the intolerable suffering imposed on over 2 million Palestinians, who have endured months of unrelenting bombardment, starvation tactics, and medical blockades.

“People have no access to water, electricity, or food in many areas,” she said. “For six weeks, nothing has entered,” adding that the organization’s field hospital in Gaza would run out of life-saving supplies within two weeks.

The grim declaration from one of the world’s leading humanitarian bodies comes amid near-total silence and inaction from the so-called international community. Despite repeated calls for humanitarian access, Israeli forces continue to obstruct aid convoys, targeting infrastructure and rendering aid delivery nearly impossible.

The World Health Organization (WHO) also raised the alarm, stating that antibiotics, blood bags, and other essential medicines are critically low. According to Richard Peeperkorn, WHO’s representative in the occupied Palestinian territories, only 22 out of 36 hospitals in Gaza remain minimally operational, a direct result of Israel’s deliberate targeting of medical facilities.

“The health system is crumbling under siege,” Peeperkorn noted during a video briefing from Jerusalem. “Patients are dying not just from bombs, but from infections and wounds that go untreated.”

Spoljaric emphasized that even humanitarian workers are at constant risk, navigating a landscape where there are no safe zones and no guarantees of protection, despite international law.

“Moving people is extremely dangerous, but it is particularly dangerous for our work,” she said, referring to the daily obstacles faced by aid groups attempting to reach the wounded and starving.

As Palestinian civilians are systematically denied access to food, medical care, and safety, the ICRC and WHO's statements serve as a damning indictment of the Israeli regime’s ongoing crimes and the global complicity that allows them to continue.

This is not just a humanitarian crisis — it is a manufactured catastrophe, unfolding before the eyes of a world that remains disturbingly unmoved. (ILKHA)