UNICEF chief warns that all residents of northern Gaza Strip ‘are at imminent risk of death’

Every man, woman and child remaining in northern Gaza “is at imminent risk of death,” Catherine Russell, director of the United Nations Children’s Fund, warned in a statement Saturday.

Almost a month ago, Israel launched an offensive into Northern Gaza to implement the so-called “General’s Plan” to ethnically cleanse all of Northern Gaza. Almost no food, water or medicine was allowed into the northern Gaza Strip, forcing hundreds of thousands of people to flee.

Those who remain, numbering approximately 100,000, are cut off from the basic necessities of life and are systematically starved or killed by Israeli bombing.

Israel’s “master plan” is carried out with the approval and support of the United States, which continues to fund and arm Israel’s genocide in the Gaza Strip. The US is also sending troops to the Middle East to help Israel escalate its war against the people of Gaza, Lebanon, Syria and Iran.

As a result of this campaign of starvation and killing, “the entire Palestinian population of northern Gaza, especially children, is at risk of death from disease, starvation and continued bombing,” Russell said.

“It has already been a deadly weekend with attacks in North Gaza.” Russell added: “In the last 48 hours alone, more than 50 children are reported to have been killed in Jabaliya, where strikes destroyed two residential buildings housing hundreds of people.”