The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) announced – today, Tuesday – that 750,000 people in the Gaza Strip are facing catastrophic hunger.
In a statement, the UN agency called for a significant increase in aid as the threat of famine increases.
UNRWA added that the violent fighting, the refusal to receive aid, and the interruption of communications hinder its ability to provide aid safely and effectively.
For its part, the World Food Program said today that very small amounts of food aid have reached the south of the Gaza Strip to the north since the beginning of the war, stressing that the risk of pockets of famine forming in areas of the Strip still exists.
The spokeswoman for the United Nations Program in the Middle East, Abeer Atifa, said that it is difficult to reach places in need of aid, especially in the northern Gaza Strip.
These new warnings come while aid has been cut off from hundreds of thousands of besieged residents in the northern Gaza Strip.
The humanitarian crisis in the northern governorates has reached unprecedented stages, and famine has become a reality in light of the tragic conditions that the population is experiencing.
Manhattan Tribune published the testimonies of some displaced people in shelter schools, where everyone complains of lack of food and drinking water, even contaminated water.
A few days ago, it was reported that Palestinians are forced to grind animal fodder in order to make bread from it.
