United Nations, June 15 (RHC)-- Carl Skau, deputy executive director of the UN’s World Food Program (WFP), said a “public health and protection disaster” is unfolding in southern Gaza where one million displaced people are trapped amid a “shocking” level of “destruction.”

Reporting after the completion of a two-day mission to Gaza, Skau said the challenges faced by humanitarian workers are “like nothing I have ever seen” amid escalating fighting in the south and center of Gaza, which is taking a devastating toll on the civilian population.

“From the south to the northernmost tip of the Strip, people are traumatised and exhausted,” he said in a post on social media.  “People want a ceasefire, and they want dignity back,” Skau said in a video interview.