New York, SANA-UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Martin Griffiths, warned that Israeli invasion of southern blockaded Gaza Strip city of Rafah which is crowded with more than 1.5 million Palestinians, will be \u201ca tragedy beyond words\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe simplest truth is that a ground operation in Rafah will be nothing short of a tragedy beyond words. No humanitarian plan can counter that. The rest is detail\u201d Palestinian Wafa Agency quoted Griffiths as saying in a statement.<\/p>\n
He added: \u201cThe world has been appealing to Israeli authorities for weeks to spare Rafah, but a ground operation there is on the immediate horizon.\u201d<\/p>\n
Griffiths said that hundreds of thousands of Palestinians who have fled to Gaza\u2019s southernmost point to escape disease, famine, mass graves and direct fighting, a ground invasion would spell even more trauma and death.\u201d<\/p>\n
He warned that \u201cFor agencies struggling to provide humanitarian aid despite impassable roads, unexploded ordnance, fuel shortages, delays at checkpoints, and Israeli restrictions, a ground invasion would strike a disastrous blow\u201d. We are in a race to stave off hunger and death, and we are losing,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
Manar Salameh<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
New York, SANA-UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Martin Griffiths, warned that Israeli invasion of southern blockaded Gaza Strip city of Rafah which is crowded with more than 1.5 million Palestinians, will be \u201ca tragedy beyond words\u201d. \u201cThe simplest truth is that a ground operation in Rafah will be nothing short of …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":329979,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6987,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-329978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-arabic-international","category-latest-news","category-news-bar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329978"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=329978"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":329980,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329978\/revisions\/329980"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/329979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=329978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=329978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=329978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}