UN condemns Gaza crisis 1 year on from Israeli war

The UN has acknowledged that the besieged Palestinian territory of the Gaza Strip is still beset by crisis almost a year after the latest Israeli war on the enclave that turned genocidal when the Israeli army resorted to the mass killings of the Palestinian civilians in a bungled bid to crush the resolve of the Palestinian resistance fighters.

"Gaza is still in crisis, with civilians, as always, paying the highest price,” the UN Humanitarian Coordinator for the occupied Palestinian territory, Robert Piper, said on Tuesday, voicing concern over the humanitarian situation and the slow pace of reconstruction in the blockaded territory.

According to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), the deadly 2014 Israeli onslaught caused close to $1.4 billion in direct and indirect damages and $1.7 billion in economic losses to the Palestinian territory.

Piper went on to say that humanitarian organizations have provided close to 90,000 families in the besieged territory with temporary shelter, over 1.4 million people have been given food assistance and some 85,000 children have received psycho-social support.

He said that despite the measures taken to assuage the pains of the Gazans, approximately 100,000 people remain internally displaced in the area, hosted in temporary accommodation or in make-shift shelters.

The UN official added that close to 120,000 people are still waiting to be reconnected to the sliver’s water supply, which was cut during the Israeli aggression.