The US, Britain and the European Union are other major backers and the reality is no other organisation has the scale to provide services to Palestinians. Mr Lazzarini painted a grim picture of conditions on the ground in Gaza, with looming starvation and outbreak of diseases among the destruction. “Basically on a stretch of 20 kilometres, you have hundreds of thousands of people now living in streets in this plastic makeshift [tents], sleeping on concrete,” he said. “Now it’s winter, it’s very cold and what I have seen also is that people now are just in automatic survival mode …...