Archiv: Olga Cherevko


14.09.2025 - 17:27 [ United Nations ]

Gaza: International community must ‘match words with action’ now

Olga Cherevko, Spokesperson in Gaza for the UN aid coordination office OCHA, warned that history will not judge the international community “based on the speeches that we made” but rather on actions.

Speaking from Deir Al-Balah, she delivered a blunt message: “When Gaza burned, and children starved, and hospitals collapsed – did you act?”

She said this past Tuesday, Gaza City “was handed a death sentence”, with hundreds of thousands of battered civilians ordered to flee to an already overcrowded area where “even small animals have to search for spaces to squeeze between to move around.”

14.09.2025 - 17:18 [ Palestine Chronicle ]

Gaza Famine Deaths Reach 420 as UN Warns of ‘Death Sentence’ on Gaza City

UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini said that the famine in Gaza is the direct result of deliberate restrictions on humanitarian aid, compounded by the destruction of vital infrastructure and repeated Israeli attacks on relief operations. “In 30 years of humanitarian work, I have never encountered such blatant disregard for the protected status of humanitarian workers,” Lazzarini added.

Olga Cherevko, spokeswoman for the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), warned that Israel has effectively “imposed a death sentence” on Gaza City. Speaking via video link from Deir al-Balah to journalists at the UN headquarters in New York, she said Palestinians are left with no choice but “leave or die.”

31.03.2025 - 13:37 [ @UNOCHA.org / Bluesky ]

Community kitchens in #Gaza have reportedly come under attack in the last 3 days. These are places serving the most basic life essential: food. „Attacks against people who are trying to feed the hungry are abhorrent.“ A ceasefire must be reinstated. Civilians must be protected.

(March 28, 2025)