The International Committee to Support Gaza (ICSG) has beckoned on the world community to save Gaza amid Israeliās ongoing aggression, siege and the spread of COVID-19.
This was stated in a statement issued on Monday August 31, 2020, by the head of the committee, Essam Yousef.
Yousef called on humanitarian organizations that support the Palestinian people to āexpedite the organisation of urgent relief campaigns for the health sector in Gaza, in addition to providing food aid and parcels for poor families.”
Also, the United Nationās Middle East Peace Process Coordinator, Nickolay Mladenov, has expressed concern about an imminent escalation of hostilities in the Gaza Strip.
Mladenov said, “The security situation in Gaza and its environs is deteriorating rapidly, at a time when the Gaza Strip is witnessing a fast increase in cases of coronavirus infections among the population.”
Gaza Ministry of Health announced on Sunday that the total number of infected cases in the Strip since last March had reached 192, including 3 deaths, and 72 recovered cases.
Throughout the past 3 weeks the security situation Gaza has remained extremely tense in light of the continued launching of incendiary balloons from the Strip, and the Israeli armyās response with bombing raids on different parts of the territory.
Launchers of the incendiary balloons, which ignite fires in Israeli areas adjacent to Gaza Strip, say they seek to force Israel to abide by the cease-fire understandings that include easing the siege on Gaza.
The Israeli government have also decided to tighten the siege by preventing the entry of fuel and building materials into Gaza, closing the sea completely and preventing fishermen from fishing.
