UN WARNS: GAZA IN DANGER OF BECOMING “UNINHABITABLE”

By Janet Ekstract NEW YORK – On Friday, the U.N. warned that Israel’s repeated attacks on Gaza infrastructure and cold temperatures are creating a situation of Gaza being “completely uninhabitable.” The head of the U.N. Human Rights Office for the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Ajith Sunghay said: “I fear that many more civilians will die.” Sunghay added: “The continued attacks on specially protected facilities such as hospitals will kill civilians and there will be a further massive impact on access to healthcare, safety and security in general of Palestinians.” Sunghay also said that the current situation in Gaza “risks making an already unsanitary situation completely uninhabitable for the people.” The situation on the ground is that most Palestinians “have no warm clothes or blankets. Northern Gaza where IDF (Israel Defense Forces) bombardment continues, is barely accessible even to provide basic humanitarian aid,” Sunghay reiterated. The fears are that fighting could move further south to Rafah where an estimated 1.3 million people are now squeezed into Rafah by the Egyptian border to escape the bombing.