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<ul class="summary-list"><li>After Hamas' attacks on Israel over the weekend, Gaza is under siege.</li><li>Israel has cut off food, water, fuel, and electricity to the Palestinian enclave.</li></ul>NGOs operating in Gaza are fast running out of supplies."Absolutely no humanitarian aid is getting into Gaza," Ivan Karakashian, the head of advocacy in Jerusalem for the NGO Norwegian Refugee Council, told Insider.Karakashian said his group is currently "distributing what we have in stock and available locally within Gaza, but the blockade restrictions mean that aid agencies can't bring in more aid from outside.""Water, fuel, and other essential supplies are running dangerously low," he added.Israel cut off food, water, fuel, and electricity to Gaza after the militant Palestinian group <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/what-is-hamas-2023-10">Hamas</a> launched deadly strikes on Israel and took civilians hostage over the weekend.Israel said <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/israelis-kidnapped-families-plead-for-release-hamas-2023-10">more than 100 people</a> were taken hostage and 1,300 people <a href="https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/israel-hamas-war-gaza-strip/card/latest-death-toll-in-israel-and-gaza-eoVPFI8WcXN0mzIR73pY#:~:text=Israel%20said%20that%201%2C300%20people,97%20hostages%20taken%20to%20Gaza." target="_blank" rel="noopener">killed</a> in the weekend's attacks.In response, Israel <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/israel-formally-declares-war-on-hamas-seeks-full-control-gaza-2023-10">declared a state of war</a> on Sunday and announced a <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/israel-gallant-announces-complete-siege-gaza-no-electricity-food-fuel-2023-10">"complete siege" of Gaza</a> on Monday.Israel's Air Force has pummeled Gaza, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/israel-air-force-bomb-gaza-hamas-6000-times-continue-relentlessly-2023-10?r=US&amp;IR=T">saying it has bombed the strip 6,000 times</a> and will continue to do so, "forcefully and relentlessly."Israel's attacks have killed more than 1,500 people, the Palestinian health ministry <a href="https://edition.cnn.com/middleeast/live-news/israel-news-hamas-war-10-13-23/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said,</a> with the UN saying 423,000 people have been displaced.Late on Thursday, Israel said that <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/israel-demand-million-people-leave-northern-gaza-impossible-un-2023-10?r=US&amp;IR=T">civilians living in northern Gaza needed to evacuate</a> the area within 24 hours, suggesting that things were about to get much worse.The UN said evacuating 1.1 million people would be impossible "without devastating humanitarian consequences."<div type="image" title="Palestinian child wounded in Israel strikes are brought to Shifa Hospital in Gaza City" height="1333" width="2000" msid="104404223" hostid="261" sizebytes="179504"></div>More than two million people are trapped in the enclave, one of the world's most densely populated places, with supplies dwindling.Alun McDonald, a spokesperson for Islamic Relief Worldwide, told Insider there is a "huge challenge with procuring more supplies."He said the group is currently "distributing what we have in stock and available locally within Gaza, but the blockade restrictions mean that aid agencies can't bring in more aid from outside."Karakashian said his NGO's staff in Gaza are reporting empty shops.Many human rights advocates say Israel's siege of Gaza, which it said it will enforce until the hostages are freed, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/hamas-committed-war-crimes-will-israels-government-do-the-same-2023-10">violates international law</a>.Israel's heavy strikes are also limiting what aid workers can do, the groups say.Karakashian said his group has 52 employees in Gaza, some of whom have been displaced.He said there needs to be humanitarian corridors and a pause that allows humanitarian personnel and supplies to enter. Without that, he said, "we will not be able to provide life-saving assistance."McDonald said that "the security situation makes it extremely dangerous to deliver aid – even ambulances and medical teams have been hit by bombs – and some areas are inaccessible due to the bombing."He said his group has mainly focused on delivering medical supplies and drugs for hospitals and health facilities, describing those as "particularly overwhelmed right now."But those deliveries have been "very limited given the scale of the needs," he said.Doctors Without Borders <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/gaza-israel-airstrikes-children-doctors-without-borders-2023-10?r=US&amp;IR=T">told Insider that many of their patients in Gaza have been children</a>, and that they are limited in their treatment because it is so hard for patients and doctors to move around.Almost half of Gaza's population<a href="https://www.insider.com/children-rights-gaza-palestine-israel-human-rights-united-nations-2023-10"> is under 18,</a> meaning around one million children are at risk.

'Absolutely no humanitarian aid is getting into Gaza,' NGO says

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Israel is stopping food, fuel, and medicine from entering Gaza after announcing a "complete siege."</li><li>An NGO said the move may "lead people to going hungry, thirsty, and ultimately towards dying."</li></ul>Following Israel's announcement of a "complete siege" of Gaza, fears are mounting over an impending humanitarian crisis in the territory.Hamas' surprise attack on Saturday, which Israel said <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/live-updates/israel-hamas-palestinian-war-attacks-gaza-strip/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">has led to the deaths of at least 1,200 Israelis</a>, prompted Israel to <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/israel-formally-declares-war-on-hamas-seeks-full-control-gaza-2023-10">declare war on the group</a> and increase airstrikes on Gaza. Palestinian authorities say at least 950 Palestinians have been <a href="https://www.ft.com/content/8035a4b4-1d0d-4cb6-b855-fd3260a06f68" target="_blank" rel="noopener">killed</a> so far.Even before Hamas' attack, Israel controlled most of the Occupied Palestinian Territory 's food, water, and power. The <a href="https://www.ohchr.org/en/news/2023/07/special-rapporteur-says-israels-unlawful-carceral-practices-occupied-palestinian#:~:text=The%20Special%20Rapporteur%20said%20the,their%20status%20as%20protected%20persons." target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">UN's special rapporteur</a> described the city as an "open-air prison."And conditions in the territory now look set to get even worse.Israel's defense minister reportedly <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/israel-gallant-announces-complete-siege-gaza-no-electricity-food-fuel-2023-10">said on Monday</a> that Gaza will get "no electricity, no food, no fuel," adding that "everything is closed."Israel has since <a href="https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-gaza-hamas-airstrikes-hostages-bf6c42f84526c4d9416978c8effd932a" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stopped</a> food, fuel, and medicines from entering the territory, The Associated Press reported.Ivan Karakashian, the head of advocacy in Jerusalem for the NGO Norwegian Refugee Council, condemned Hamas' attack but told Insider that Israel's announcement amounted to "a policy of starving" Gaza's roughly <a href="https://www.reuters.com/graphics/ISRAEL-PALESTINIANS/MAPS/movajdladpa/">2.2 million population</a>.Karakashian, speaking to Insider from Jerusalem on Tuesday, said the organization had 52 staff in Gaza, who report depleted stores of basic goods, and that his group believed the siege would create a "humanitarian catastrophe for Gaza's besieged civilians."Around 80% of the city's population depended on humanitarian assistance even before the weekend's events, according to the <a href="https://www.unrwa.org/gaza15-years-blockade">United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA)</a>.Food could run out by Saturday, Karakashian said, adding that water capacity had been reduced to 40%. The siege will "quite literally starve the population and lead people to going hungry, thirsty, and ultimately towards dying."One Gaza resident told Insider he fled his home after a warning from Israel, and <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/gaza-resident-fled-israel-attacks-unsure-how-food-water-2023-10?r=US&amp;IR=T">doesn't know where his family can stay or get food and water</a>.Karakashian also said that <a href="https://www.insider.com/children-rights-gaza-palestine-israel-human-rights-united-nations-2023-10">almost half of Gaza's population was under 18</a>, "and cutting off these essentials would represent a grave breach of international humanitarian law."The head of the Gaza Energy Authority said Wednesday that Gaza's only power plant will stop at 2 p.m. local time due to a lack of fuel.Without that power, hospitals will also struggle to treat patients, Karakashian said.<div type="image" title="A man works to remove causalities from under the rubble, in the aftermath of Israeli strikes, in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip" height="1333" width="2000" msid="104345435" hostid="261"></div>UN Secretary General António Guterres, who condemned Hamas' attacks, <a href="https://press.un.org/en/2023/sgsm21984.doc.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> he was "deeply distressed" by Israel's siege announcement. "The humanitarian situation in Gaza was extremely dire before these hostilities; now it will only deteriorate exponentially."Israel has told people to move from some areas before attacks, but those in the city — one of the world's most densely populated areas — say it is so small and tightly packed that there is nowhere safe to go.Israel and its neighbor Egypt also <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/netanyahu-israel-response-hamas-attack-devastating-for-gaza-2023-10">control movement from the city</a>, stopping almost everyone from leaving.Humanitarian workers in Gaza <a href="https://www.cnn.com/videos/tv/2023/10/09/amanpour-gaza-israel-omar-ghraieb.cnn#:~:text=Watch%20CNN-,'No%20shelters%2C%20no%20bunkers%20and%20no%20safe%20zones',in%20Gaza%2C%20says%20humanitarian%20worker&amp;text=Christiane%20Amanpour%20speaks%20to%20Oxfam's,being%20affected%20by%20Israeli%20airstrikes." target="_blank" rel="noopener">say</a> there are few safe areas, while the UNRWA <a href="https://www.unrwa.org/resources/reports/unrwa-situation-report-4-gaza-strip-and-west-bank-including-east-jerusalem" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> that 175,500 people were sheltering in 88 of its schools in Gaza as of Wednesday, adding that these numbers were continuing to increase.Karakashian said nowhere in Gaza provides proper safety."Residents don't know where to go to get to feel safe and secure as Israel widens its bombardment of large areas," he said. <div type="image" title="A relative reacts next to the bodies of Palestinians killed in Israeli strikes, at a hospital in Gaza City" height="1294" width="2000" msid="104345438" hostid="261"></div>Giora Eiland, a retired Israeli security official and former general, <a href="https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20231010-no-place-is-safe-in-gaza-as-israel-lays-siege-to-hamas-held-enclave" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said causing a humanitarian disaster could be justified</a> to "completely eliminate the threat of Hamas." "The only way we can achieve this is by using all the aggressive measures that we have — including, if needed, to create a terrible humanitarian crisis in Gaza," he said, per <a href="https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20231010-no-place-is-safe-in-gaza-as-israel-lays-siege-to-hamas-held-enclave">France 24</a>.Karakashian called for humanitarian pauses and humanitarian corridors to get aid to civilians. "But right now, it doesn't seem that there's much interest in negotiating such terms."

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