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A staff member at the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees says the lack of humanity he witnessed in the northern Gaza Strip is “incomprehensible.”

Sam Rose says it is “basically impossible” for UNRWA to provide any kind of assistance to civilians stuck in the north of the enclave amid constant Israeli military activity.

Mr. Rose describes the scenes in Jabalia, where bakeries have run out of flour – the only food left in the area – and all eight water wells in the area have dried up.

“Unfortunately, if we believe that this conflict cannot get any worse, there is a risk that it will plummet even further,” he told Sky News.

“The lack of humanity we are witnessing in northern Gaza is frankly incomprehensible, as is the world’s inability to do anything about it.”

The situation could get worse, says Mr Rose, if not everyone in northern Gaza had access to a polio vaccination.

The World Health Organization has vaccinated more than half a million Palestinian children but had to postpone the latest round of its polio vaccination campaign due to escalating violence in northern Gaza.

This final vaccination phase aimed to immunize 119,279 children across northern Gaza, but relied on humanitarian pauses in fighting to ensure its completion.

The entire campaign could now be at risk if the final phase cannot be completed.

“If only a proportion of the population is vaccinated, with live polio, if that vaccine enters the water system it can be picked up by other unvaccinated children,” Mr Rose added.

“Over time it mutates. And we are dealing with a completely new strain of the disease that no one in Gaza is vaccinated against.”