24/10/24 (Agence Europe) – The High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Josep Borrell, reaffirmed the urgent need for full, rapid and secure access for humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip, deploring the current situation in the north of the Palestinian enclave. “For more than two weeks, critical aid lifelines into Northern Gaza have been severed, with little to no food aid entering the area. On Saturday, Northern Gaza was also cut off from mobile communications. I join the UN Special Coordinator, Tor Wennesland, in calling for an end to attacks on civilians and for the protection of displaced persons”, declared Mr Borrell in a statement on Wednesday 23 October, denouncing a new evacuation order addressed to almost 400,000 people. (BD)