加沙暴雨成灾:人道团队称影响本可避免,逾15万顶帐篷在境外50公里处待运入

巴勒斯坦被占领土人道主义国家工作队发表声明说,加沙最新一场暴雨造成的破坏性影响本可以避免。声明说,儿童和成人死亡,关键服务暂停,数千个家庭庇护所被洪水淹没、冲走或撕毁,这不只是风暴本身造成的,也是政策决定造成的。
声明说,作为占领方,以色列有义务保障当地居民的基本需求,包括生存所必需的物资,但以色列的政策继续阻碍关键物资进入,也阻碍人们进入加沙大部分土地,包括不易被洪水淹没的远离海岸地区。入境物资面临多重审批要求,过境能力受限,交付窗口不可预测或过于狭窄,延误了物资进入。
声明说,尽管资金远未达所需水平,人道伙伴和成员国采购的15万多顶帐篷已在加沙境外准备发运,多数存放在阿里什,距汗尤尼斯仅50公里。该工作队呼吁以色列当局立即确保巴勒斯坦人获得救命物资,并通过每一个可用口岸加快足量运入。
Gaza Rainstorm Devastation Was Preventable, Aid Team Says, as 150,000 Tents Wait 50 Kilometres Away
The Humanitarian Country Team in the Occupied Palestinian Territory said in a statement that the devastating impact of the latest rainstorm in Gaza was preventable. Children and adults were killed, critical services suspended, and thousands of family shelters flooded, swept away or torn apart, not by the storm alone, but by policy decisions, the statement said.
The country team said that as the occupying power, Israel is obliged to ensure the basic needs of the local population, including the supplies essential for their survival. Yet Israeli policies continue to obstruct the entry of critical items, as well as access to most of Gaza's land, including areas away from the shoreline that are less prone to flooding. Incoming supplies face multiple approval requirements, limiting crossing capacity, and unpredictable or narrow delivery windows that delay their entry.
Although funding has fallen far short of what is needed, more than 150,000 tents procured by humanitarian partners and member states are outside Gaza, ready for dispatch, most of them in El Arish, just 50 kilometres away from Khan Yunis. The country team called on the Israeli authorities to immediately ensure that Palestinians in Gaza have access to life-saving supplies and that their entry is expedited in sufficient quantities through every available crossing.
来源:巴勒斯坦被占领土人道主义国家工作队
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图片来源:图中是加沙地带Al-Mawasi地区流离失所巴勒斯坦人居住的帐篷区航拍图。来源:Ashraf Amra, CC BY-SA 3.0 igo, via Wikimedia Commons。
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