The situation in Gaza after more than a week of siege byIsraelIt is “catastrophic,” according to David Cantero, coordinator of Doctors Without Borders in the occupied Palestinian territories. “There is not a single safe place in Gaza. It is the tightest human cage ever. People have nowhere to go and when they moved south they have been bombed”he assures.

In an interview on Cadena Ser he explained that “we are facing a humanitarian crisis that is unprecedented” with water cut off and without food or fuel: “The situation is terrifying and the hospitals are at their limit.”. They have hours of fuel left and if they don’t have fuel they separate the generators. We are talking about intensive care units, incubators. “Many patients are going to die in beds.”

In this context it is essential the opening of the border crossing with Egypt so that humanitarian aid can arrive who has been waiting for days in that place to be able to reach the civilians trapped in Gaza.

“The Egyptian border was key for all this supply. Before, in a normal situation, 500 trucks passed by a day and since the 7th not a single box of supplies has entered. Those 20 roads that will allow passage are a ridiculous amount. They have to allow humanitarian entry now,” warns Cantero.

“Many people risk their lives daily to get to these hospitals and be able to continue providing health care. We do not know if they will have been able to arrive today and if they have fuel“, has warned.

For his part, the head of Humanitarian Affairs of the United Nations, Martin Griffiths, has assured that The Gaza Strip is “on its knees” and that its inhabitants are being “murdered.”

“Hundreds of people have been killed. Gaza is on its knees. Health, water and sanitation systems are collapsing. “People are being stripped of their dignity.”Griffiths said on the social network

Along the same lines, the World Health Organization has recalled that we can no longer wait for the opening of the Rafah border crossing, which connects Egypt with the Gaza Strip – the only one that is not under Israeli control – and through which You can bring much-needed aid to the population suffering the consequences of the war between Israel and the Islamist movement Hamas.

“We need (the opening) to happen now, we cannot continue waiting”, declared the organization’s Director of Health Emergencies, Mike Ryan. “The aid shipments are ready, at the border, we are waiting for them to enter. They are urgently needed, this horror has to stop,” said the organization’s representative for Palestine, Richard Peeperkorn, in a press video conference after learning the attack on the hospital in Gaza.