A top UN official has warned the deteriorating situation in Gaza is the worst humanitarian crisis he has ever seen in his 50-year career, Ednews reports citing Sky News.
Speaking to Sky News' Yalda Hakim, Martin Griffiths said it was because "people can't escape. They're blocked in, they're not able to run out of Gaza".
"I think this is the worst [crisis] in my 50 years of experience."
The UN under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs said it was worse than "awful scenes" he witnessed during the civil war in Syria a few years ago and worse than the "horrors" that were the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia in the 1970s.
He compared the situation in Gaza with the current war in Sudan where "the suffering is quite likely on a similar scene" - but although eight million people have been displaced, one and a half million have left the country in northeast Africa.
"Now I'm not saying that's a wonderful thing, but it's a choice that they can make. This is not a choice that can be made in Gaza," he said.