UN aid chief warns Gaza ‘wildfire’ threatens to consume whole region

The war in Gaza is a “wildfire” that could spread across the region, UN aid chief Martin Griffiths has warned, as Israel’s genocidal war on the besieged territory is entering its fifth month. 

Griffiths gave “five facts you need to know” about the situation in the war-torn besieged territory, in a social media post on Monday.

The population of southern Gaza’s Rafah has “increased five-fold” and families – trying to escape Israel’s relentless bombings – are “crammed in shelters and sleeping in the open.”

Griffiths warned that the situation in Gaza is a “disaster in the making” targeting public and mental health.

The UN chief also said because of the “massive needs”, “pervasive insecurity” and “persistent access constraint” humanitarian aid alone “is not enough.”

Indiscriminate bombing of densely populated civilian areas and depriving Gaza’s population of the essentials for survival “may amount to war crimes,” he added.

“The conflict is a wildfire that threatens to consume the West Bank, Lebanon and the wider region,” he warned.