For the sixth consecutive day, thousands of families in the northern Gaza Strip are suffering from a severe shortage of water and food, as a result of the strict siege imposed by the Israeli occupation during its ongoing aggression, in which it is committing massacres and atrocities against civilians.

The besieged citizens are appealing through social media platforms and by phone to their relatives in the rest of the Gaza Strip, for urgent relief to save them and their children from death by hunger and thirst.

For about two weeks, the distribution of relief aid has stopped in most areas of the northern Gaza Strip, due to the Israeli army preventing the entry of aid trucks provided by international and local organizations, according to an Anadolu Agency correspondent.

The World Food Programme complained on Thursday of its inability to distribute food in the North Gaza Governorate due to a shortage of supplies.

This comes amid tight restrictions imposed by Israel, the occupying power, on aid access to the Gaza Strip, which several organizations complain make providing a humanitarian response extremely difficult, if not impossible.

“We are no longer able to distribute food in any form in North Gaza Governorate,” the World Food Programme said in a statement on the X platform.

He added, "The shortage of supplies in Gaza forces us to stop distributing food parcels during October."

The UN programme added: "There is no distribution of food parcels, and flour is running out in bakeries in southern and central Gaza."

In this context, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) announced that the Israeli occupation is besieging at least 400,000 Palestinians in the northern Gaza Strip.

Since the start of its aggression and new ground invasion of the northern Gaza Strip on October 6, the Israeli occupation has been besieging the town of Jabalia and its camp, preventing residents from fleeing to the neighboring city of Gaza, and ordering them to flee only via Salah al-Din Street, which extends along the eastern Gaza Strip from north to south.

This is the third ground invasion carried out by the Israeli occupation forces in Jabalia camp since the beginning of the genocidal war on Gaza on October 7.

Citizens in the northern Gaza Strip rely on some random wells that operate on solar energy, and mobile water carts in the streets, to meet their basic needs for consumable water.

These methods have become the primary source of water, after the Israeli occupation deliberately destroyed most of the public water wells and infrastructure networks during the war of extermination that has been ongoing for more than a year.

With the start of the current aggression on the town of Jabalia and its camp, the random water wells stopped working, and water transport vehicles were unable to reach the besieged people to provide relief.

Ahed Mousa, a young man who is trapped in Jabalia camp with his father, told Anadolu Agency: “The water ran out yesterday, and there are only 20 liters left that we use for drinking and everything.”

He added: "If the water runs out, we and our children will die of thirst, and we will not forgive the world for that," stressing that "going out to get water poses a great danger because the occupation targets any movement."

He added: "The bodies of a number of our neighbors and residents of our neighborhood are lying in the streets, and they cannot be recovered, as they were killed by the Israeli occupation army."

He continued: "If the concerned authorities do not intervene to provide water, a real disaster will occur, as thousands are still trapped in their homes and shelters."

In the “Happy Yemen” shelter center west of Jabalia camp, citizen Samia Khater and her family of 8, including 4 children, are displaced, as they suffer from a shortage of water and food.

She told Anadolu Agency: "We have not had water for a week. We are using the minimum we have."

She explained that they drink small amounts to reduce the need to use toilets, and they cannot wash dishes due to the lack of water, fearing that it will run out before the siege is lifted.

For his part, citizen Adham Hijazi from the besieged Beit Lahia Project area said, “Some wealthy families have stored enough food for weeks and are consuming it now, while poor families are suffering severely.”

He explained that the remaining food for his family of 9 is enough for two or three days, after which he and his children will face the risk of starvation.

He added that international and local relief organizations left the area under bombardment, and their warehouses are empty because the occupation prevented trucks from arriving.

He pointed out that "charitable hospices have stopped, and people in shelters are starving to death, waiting for aid."

With the start of the ground invasion, farmer Yousef Al-Radhi’ was displaced with his family and neighbors from the border town of Beit Lahia to the heart of Jabalia camp.

"We could not carry food or luggage with us, there is no food for sale in Jabalia, and the besieged people have nothing to eat," he said.

The "infant" had planted his land with eggplant and pepper crops to achieve self-sufficiency and sell the surplus, but he was forced to leave it behind without harvesting the crop, certain that the occupation forces had bulldozed the land.

He appealed to international bodies to intervene urgently to provide relief to him and his family of 7, and to pressure Israel to allow food aid, medical supplies and medicine into the region.

Medical sources announced that the situation in hospitals in the northern Gaza Strip has reached a "catastrophic" stage that threatens the lives of children in the intensive care unit, and poses a threat to the lives of 400,000 people, as the occupation forces' ground invasion continues for the sixth consecutive day.

The Israeli genocidal war in Gaza, which has been ongoing for more than a year, has left more than 139,000 dead and wounded, and more than 10,000 missing, amid massive destruction and famine that has killed dozens of children and elderly people.

Israel, the occupying power, continues its massacres, ignoring the UN Security Council resolution to end them immediately, and the orders of the International Court of Justice to take measures to prevent acts of genocide and improve the catastrophic humanitarian situation in Gaza.