The United Nations has issued a grave and urgent warning over the worsening humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza, demanding the immediate lifting of the Israeli-imposed siege that has turned the besieged enclave into a death zone for over two million Palestinians.

Speaking on Friday, UN spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric described the situation in Gaza as "untenable" and declared that lifesaving aid must be allowed to reach all Palestinians—without condition or interference.

“The humanitarian crisis has worsened significantly after nearly 10 weeks of aid being cut off,” Dujarric said. “Any additional delay in the entry of aid into Gaza will have consequences that cannot be reversed.”

Dujarric reaffirmed that the UN would not participate in any arrangement that violates humanitarian principles, in a clear rebuke to U.S.-Israeli plans to control and manipulate the distribution of humanitarian assistance.

Starving a Nation: Aid Blocked, Children Dying

The Israeli regime's total blockade on Gaza’s crossings since March 2 has deliberately crippled the Strip’s food supply and medical systems. According to the World Food Programme, food stocks have been completely exhausted, community kitchens shut down, and people now rely on animal feed and contaminated water to survive.

UNRWA reports confirm that Palestinian children are dying of hunger and dehydration, while families scavenge for scraps in the rubble of their homes. Fuel, medicine, and clean water have become luxuries—if not distant memories.

In the words of UN human rights experts, this is not a humanitarian crisis by accident; it is the result of a calculated war strategy: starve the people of Gaza into submission or annihilation.

U.S.-Israel Aid Plan Rejected as Colonial Weapon

Amid this unprecedented siege, the United States has proposed a deeply controversial and dangerous plan to create so-called “secure distribution zones” in Gaza, run by private contractors under Israeli military coordination. The plan, widely seen as a thinly veiled colonial tool, has been rejected outright by the UN and major humanitarian agencies, who say it puts starving Palestinians in further danger and undermines the neutrality of aid work.

Even the United Arab Emirates, typically aligned with Western policies in the region, has refused to participate, expressing serious concern over the weaponization of aid and the exclusion of international humanitarian bodies.

Children Pay the Price of Siege Warfare

According to Gaza’s Government Media Office, over 65,000 Palestinian children have been hospitalized with severe malnutrition, the direct result of the Israeli and American-imposed blockade. With no functioning bakeries, no cooking oil, and no flour, parents are left helpless as their children waste away.

Thousands of aid trucks are blocked at the crossings by Israel—a deliberate policy of collective punishment that violates every tenet of international law. Entire neighborhoods are now ghost towns. Gaza’s hospitals are collapsing. And still, the bombs fall.

A Choice for the World: Complicity or Conscience

In a powerful statement, UN experts condemned the ongoing genocide and made it clear: this is a moment of moral reckoning.

“The world must act now to stop the massacres,” they warned. “Otherwise, we will bear witness to the extermination of the Palestinian people in real-time—and in full view of the international community.”

Israel's U.S.-backed aggression continues to rage despite a global outcry. Since resuming its brutal assault on March 18, thousands more Palestinians have been killed, injured, or buried under rubble. And still, the so-called "international community" debates aid mechanisms instead of halting the crime.

As Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza enters its twentieth month, and the world’s silence stretches into complicity, the people of Gaza are left alone—starving, besieged, but unbroken.

The question now is not what’s happening. The world sees it. The question is who will act, and who will continue to turn away. (ILKHA)