UN humanitarian chief Martin Griffiths said Friday that “three months since the horrific 7 October attacks, Gaza has become a place of death and despair.”

Hamas carried out terror attacks on Israel on October 7, killing 1,200 people, mostly civilians, in southern Israel and taking some 240 people hostage. In response, Israel launched a military operation against Hamas in Gaza, with limited humanitarian supplies allowed into the Gaza Strip.

Griffiths decried the deaths of “tens of thousands of people, mostly women and children” and said “medical facilities are under relentless attack.”

He said a “public health disaster is unfolding,” while noting that “famine is around the corner.”

“Gaza has simply become uninhabitable. Its people are witnessing daily threats to their very existence — while the world watches on,” Griffiths said.

“We continue to demand an immediate end to the war,” Griffiths said, adding that “it is time for the parties to meet all their obligations under international law, including to protect civilians and meet their essential needs, and to release all hostages immediately.”  

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