On war in Gaza, an appeal: ‘Let’s preserve a space for humanity’
Amid an intensifying war that has killed more than 8,500 people in Gaza and cut fuel, electricity, food, and water supplies to a captive population of 2.2 million people, international pressure is growing to address a humanitarian disaster.
Meeting the needs of 1.4 million displaced people in a war zone falls on the shoulders of United Nations agencies such as the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, or OCHA. Andrea De Domenico, head of OCHA in the occupied Palestinian territories, spoke Tuesday with The Christian Science Monitor from his office in Jerusalem about the U.N.’s efforts and Gaza’s unprecedented humanitarian crisis.
What is the most important thing for the outside world to know about the humanitarian situation in Gaza?
The scale of
