The United Nations is deeply concerned about the fate of the civilian population due to the advance of Israeli ground troops towards Rafah in the south of the Gaza Strip. “Their living conditions are abysmal — they lack the basic necessities to survive, stalked by hunger, disease and death,” said UN Emergency Relief Coordinator Martin Griffiths in Geneva on Wednesday evening. According to UN figures, more than 1 million people are now living in cramped conditions in the city directly on the border with Egypt. That is four times as many as before the Israeli military action began in retaliation…