UN aid chief describes shock at seeing dogs fattened from eating corpses in Gaza

Tom Fletcher, head of the UN’s humanitarian affairs bureau, shared his observations from a recent visit to Gaza with reporters.

“It was much, much worse than I’d anticipated, and I’d really prepared myself for the worst,” Al Jazeera reported him saying.

Fletcher said the devastation, and the desolation in northern Gaza is even greater there than it is in the south, which has now been entirely reduced to rubble.

"There were no landmarks to navigate by. You couldn’t see what was a school, what was hospital, what was a home,” he told reporters.

“One of the first shocking things I saw driving in is the dogs going through the rubble. And I said to my colleague who was with me, why are the dogs so fat? And he said, well, because the dogs are looking for corpses. And you notice that the people are thin, and then you see that for miles and miles and miles.”