Save the Children CEO on Gaza Food Crisis and Sudan Humanitarian Tragedy

Gaza Humanitarian Situation

• 🏥 The reopening of the Rafa crossing offers hope for family reunification, medical evacuations, and the potential for increased humanitarian and commercial supplies.
• 💡 While the situation in Gaza is relatively better than before the peace agreement, with more food, water, and reopened markets, it is still not nearly enough.
• ⚠️ Thousands of children are hospitalized for malnutrition, and many mothers are severely malnourished, requiring urgent and appropriate treatment.
• 🧸 Access to child-friendly spaces for trauma counseling is inconsistent, and there's a critical need for more supplies and humanitarian workers to relieve exhausted staff.
• 🥶 Inadequate shelter, like summer clothing for winter and inappropriate tents, coupled with a lack of winter clothes and materials for better shelter, exacerbates the suffering.
• 💧 Children are still playing in sewage water due to a lack of waste disposal, posing significant health risks, especially for those with compromised immune systems.

Sudan's Humanitarian Crisis

• 🌍 Sudan is described as the largest humanitarian crisis in the world, with millions displaced and suffering from malnutrition.
• ⚔️ Ongoing violence, particularly in Darfur and South Kordofan, has forced the closure of aid offices and suspension of work due to extreme danger for colleagues.
• 🕊️ There is an urgent need for a ceasefire and for humanitarian corridors to be ensured, allowing aid workers to operate safely across conflict lines.
• 📈 The scale of the crisis includes 25 million people in humanitarian need, with violence against women and girls being particularly severe and likely underreported.
• 🩸 The situation is a preventable, man-made humanitarian tragedy that requires humanitarian actors to be allowed to work and for warring parties to agree to a ceasefire.