A ‘drinking water shortage’ looms: in Egypt, French President Emmanuel Macron warns of the ‘unsustainable’ situation in Gaza.
Emmanuel Macron is the first head of state to visit the Egyptian town of Al-Arich, fifty kilometres from Gaza. Since the Israeli blockade, food has been stored here for lack of distribution.
In the huge warehouse of the Egyptian Red Crescent in northern Egyptian Sinai, you can hear the (many) flies. Thousands of pallets of food, medical equipment and antibiotics for children pile up day after day instead of being transported along the Rafah road. “In fifteen years of humanitarian work, I’ve never seen anything like this”, laments an MSF official. “It’s unbearable, you feel so powerless.”
And in a hurry, like the head of the United Nations delegation, who warned of the urgent need to lift the blockade imposed by Israel more than a month ago. “Some food is perishable. We really must be able to return to Gaza quickly, and the French president must help us to do so”, Corinne Fleischer hopes. Message received. Standing in front of the pyramid of boxes, Emmanuel Macron did not mince his words: “The situation has never been so serious and unsustainable.”
/ France24 /
