Today, Friday, the Zionist enemy continues to occupy and close Gaza crossings, preventing the wounded and sick from traveling for treatment or bringing in any humanitarian aid to the Strip for the 256th consecutive day.

The occupation has been closing the crossings since its invasion of the city of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip and its control over the Rafah and Kerem Abu Salem land crossings, despite warnings from humanitarian and relief organizations and international demands to reopen the crossings to avoid famine due to the interruption of aid, and to save the lives of thousands of patients and wounded.

The World Food Program warned that two million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, which is being subjected to a devastating Israeli war, suffer from food insecurity, expressing its concern about the reduction in the volume of aid operations to Gaza.

"There are more than ten thousand people who need to be evacuated and receive medical care outside Gaza," said UN spokesman Tarik Jasarevic.

Jasarevic stressed the need to reopen the Rafah crossing and any other border crossing to evacuate the sick and wounded so that their lives remain safe.

The government media office called for opening the Rafah and Kerem Shalom crossings and allowing aid and goods to enter and ending the ongoing genocidal war for the tenth consecutive month.

The office pointed out that the specter of famine directly threatens the lives of citizens, which portends an increase in the number of deaths due to hunger, especially among children, as 3,500 children are now at risk of death due to malnutrition and the lack of nutritional supplements and vaccinations that have become prohibited from entering the Gaza Strip.

The Ministry of Health said that about 20 thousand wounded and sick people in Gaza currently need to travel abroad for treatment, stressing that none of them have been able to leave the Strip since the Israeli forces occupied the crossings, which exposes the lives of thousands of them to complications and death.

In this context, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) warned of the catastrophic impact and dire situation facing children in Gaza due to the closure of the crossings through which aid passes, and the intensive Israeli military operations in the Strip. Since October 7, 2023, the Israeli occupation has been waging a barbaric aggression on the Gaza Strip, leaving tens of thousands of martyrs, wounded and missing, most of them children and women.