No place safe from bombings in Gaza: UN official

There is not a single safe square centimeter in Gaza, no place where someone can be sure that a bomb will not fall on them during the night, even if it is supposedly far from the areas of active combat, said Jasmine Guerda, just out of Gaza, on Tuesday. , where he spent three months trying to provide help to the population.

Guerda, who is part of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Aid (OCHA), was part of the limited team of international humanitarian workers who complement the work of Palestinian humanitarians, who are the ones who They show limitless sacrifice, he told reporters in Geneva.

“We try to measure the suffering with numbers: the total number of displaced people, liters of water per person, aid trucks each week, but the numbers don’t matter because there is never enough food, shelter or medical care for a population that has lost everything. , their jobs, a roof over their heads, their clothes, access to their bank accounts and the right to privacy,” he said.

He maintained that when talking about the population of Gaza – the latest in a series of humanitarian missions he has carried out in recent years – “not We should talk about living conditions, because no one has this luxury, the only thing they barely have are survival conditions, “Their lives hang in the balance.”

He argued that no one who is not there can understand what it means to be forcibly displaced (multiple times) in Gaza, since in a “normal” situation of war or disaster the displaced can finally find some type of security, which does not happen there.

“Think that one night you receive an order to evacuate and you have ten or fifteen minutes before the building where you are located is bombed. The children are sleeping, you wake them up and in seconds you have to decide what to take with you, the identification cards, the birth certificate, the remaining formula, the rest is a luxury: the memories, the graduation photos,” he continued.

The UN employee had words of recognition for the Palestinian people, of which He highlighted his resilience and ability to get back up again and again.showing great solidarity.

“Palestinians have lived through continuous wars and they have the ability to move forward, to find solutions, to help people they have never seen before. I have seen this with colleagues, who have lost everything, their loved ones, their homes, even their offices, but every morning they get up early to help others,” he stressed.