08/28/2025

UN Official Says ‘All Hope is Gone’ in Gaza if Israel Doesn't Stop its Ground Offensive

The area is famine-stricken and incredibly war-torn

If Israel's military goes ahead with a planned offensive in Gaza City, then "all hope is gone that we're ever going to see the end to this," a United Nations official told The Associated Press on Wednesday.

Israel says the evacuation of Gaza's most populated city is "inevitable," adding to international alarm for hundreds of thousands of people there as famine — documented and declared — threatens to spread after 22 months of war.

Sam Rose, the acting director of Gaza operations for UNRWA, or the U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees, said some people are too old, too young or too ill or incapacitated to evacuate Gaza City as Israeli tanks and armored vehicles have deployed to its outskirts.

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