(WAFA) - UN Emergency Coordinator Jan Egeland highlighted the United Nations ongoing struggle to alleviate the desperate humanitarian situation in Gaza, where had left 1.4 million Palestinians on the brink of humanitarian disaster.
He appealed, in a press conference at UN HQ in New York, for more resources to help push through aid to innocents in Gaza.
He said that Israel's "excessive use of force" has disproportionately hurt the civilian population. Israel's "surgical" bombing of Gaza's only power plant had been a disastrous act.
"With the electricity now gone, we have the downwards spiral that we predicted", he said, adding that, although Israel had allowed some fuel to go through - - enough to power backup generators for a few hours at a time and to avoid the total breakdown of clean water and sewage systems - - it was not enough to power hospitals and sanitation infrastructure permanently.
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