UN says humanitarian conditions in Gaza are now the worst they have been in last 18 months
Palestinians flee toward al-Mawasi from northern Khan Younis
Qassam Muaddi reports in Mondoweiss on 16 April 2025:
“There’s no place left for us to go,” said Malek, a Palestinian father of two in his mid-thirties who was displaced to the Mawasi area of Khan Younis after Israel resumed its carpet-bombing campaign in Gaza in mid-March. “Now the occupation army has dropped leaflets ordering people to evacuate almost every place in Gaza. They’re telling us to evacuate everywhere. So, I know that my family and I will have to move again not before long,” Malek surmised. 7
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Since the resumption of the Israeli assault on Gaza, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has said that the humanitarian situation in Gaza is now “the worst it has been” since the war began 18 months ago.
Israel not only resumed airstrikes across the strip at the same rate as the days before the ceasefire entered into force, but has also sealed it off through a complete blockade of humanitarian aid, closing all crossing points into Gaza and provoking the return of famine conditions, a critical shortage of medicine, fuel, and skyrocketing prices.
“It has now been a month and a half since any supplies were last allowed through the crossings into Gaza – by far the longest such halt to date,” OCHA said.
According to the UN, some 400,000 Palestinians have been displaced in Gaza since the resumption of the Israeli war on March 18. Most of these Palestinians, like Malek, have already been displaced multiple times since October 2023.