Israel’s month-long escalated assault and ethnic cleansing campaign in north Gaza has created conditions horrific “beyond imagination,” a UN humanitarian official has warned as the region enters its second month without receiving any food aid.

Amid a visit to north Gaza, UN Humanitarian Coordinator for the occupied Palestinian territory Muhannad Hadi said on Tuesday that Israel’s assault has created conditions not fit for survival.

“This is not a place for humans to survive,” said Hadi. “This must end. This misery must end. This war must end. This is beyond imagination.”

The UN official said that conditions have declined significantly since the Israeli military first escalated its assault in the north a month ago — creating an even more dire situation for the area already stricken by a year of Israel’s famine, disease spread and bombardments.

During his last visit in September, Hadi visited a UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) school-turned shelter in Gaza City that was then sheltering 500 people. Now, just weeks later, that school is sheltering over 1,500 people who have been forcibly displaced by Israel’s mass evacuation orders in the region.

“At this school, I have seen families and people living on top of each other. It is unbearable here,” Hadi said. “There is no access to [the] bathroom. There are shortages of food. The situation is unbearable. Sewage water is everywhere. Waste is everywhere.”

Hadi described watching one man preparing lentil soup, made up of just water and lentils, in a small pot that needed to feed 12 people.

Indeed, the UN has reported that “all attempts”........

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