{"id":311144,"date":"2025-09-12T15:39:39","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T19:39:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?post_type=document&p=311144"},"modified":"2025-09-15T15:42:32","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T19:42:32","slug":"a-death-sentence-aid-agencies-warn-of-israels-assault-on-gaza-city-non-un-document","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/a-death-sentence-aid-agencies-warn-of-israels-assault-on-gaza-city-non-un-document\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cA death sentence\u201d \u2013 Aid agencies warn of Israel\u2019s assault on Gaza City\u00a0(Non-Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Document)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This is a non-United Nations document. Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ provides these documents only as a convenience for reference purposes, and the inclusion of a document does not imply the endorsement of its content by the United Nations.<\/em><\/p>\n

12 September 2025<\/p>\n

Forty-five humanitarian and civil society organisations warn that Israel\u2019s assault on Gaza City amounts to a death sentence.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Intensified Israeli military attacks on Gaza City and forced displacement orders for the entire city are leaving families with an impossible dilemma: flee and risk death on the road and in overcrowded displacement areas, or stay and face relentless bombardment in their shelters. Starvation and siege await them regardless.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are humans just like you. We want to live with dignity and safety, not to die from hunger or bombs.\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0Ayman (name changed), a father sheltering with his family in Gaza City.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Nearly 1 million remain in Gaza City<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cOur only demand is life,\u201d said Ayman (name changed), a father sheltering with his family in Gaza City. \u201cWe are humans just like you. We want to live with dignity and safety, not to die from hunger or bombs.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nearly 1 million Palestinians, starved, grieving, and displaced many times over, remain in Gaza City. If Israel\u2019s operation in Gaza City continues, hospitals will be cut off and attacked, shelters and schools bombed, aid convoys blocked, and those too weak, old, or sick to flee will be left to die. \u201cWe are tired of running from one place to another,\u201d said Abeer (name changed), a humanitarian worker.<\/p>\n

Humanitarian operations deliberately obstructed<\/strong><\/p>\n

At the same time, Israel is deliberately obstructing humanitarian operations. Aid trucks continue to be denied, and international NGOs are left in limbo by an opaque registration regime, even as famine deepens.<\/p>\n

The International Court of Justice has recognised that Palestinians in Gaza have a right to be protected from genocide. Each act of forced displacement and each surge of hunger makes that danger more certain, and the world cannot claim it did not see this coming.<\/p>\n

Let our goods enter. Let us work. Stop this assault.<\/p>\n

Signatories<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Signed by 45 Humanitarian and Civil Society Organisations:<\/p>\n