6:35 a.m.: The UN is very worried about civilians in the Gaza Strip
An “even more hellish scenario”, to which humanitarian operations may be incapable of responding, is looming in the Gaza Strip, Lynn Hastings, UN humanitarian coordinator for the Palestinian Territories, warned on Monday. Since the resumption of hostilities on December 1 after a seven-day truce, “Israeli military operations have extended to southern Gaza, forcing tens of thousands of other people to flee into increasingly concentrated spaces, with a in desperate need of food, water, shelter and security,” she said.
“The necessary conditions to provide aid to the people of Gaza do not exist,” she said, adding that “no one is safe in Gaza and there is nowhere left to go.”