‘Heart-Wrenching’: UN Food Agency Warns of Starvation in Gaza
“Every day that passes pushes more and more people closer to starvation,” said Corinne Fleischer, WFP regional director for Middle East, North Africa and Eastern Europe.
WFP has food for 244,000 people close to the border with Gaza. More supplies are arriving in northeastern Egypt, where an assistance hub is being set up, the UN agency said.
“Heart-wrenchingly, hundreds of people are queueing for hours every day to get bread rations at bakeries across Gaza while food is there, ready for distribution, just across the border,” said Samer Abdeljaber, WFP’s country director in Palestine.
Tel Aviv waged its war on the besieged territory after the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas carried out the surprise Operation Al-Aqsa Storm into the occupied territories in response to the occupying regime’s intensified crimes against the Palestinian people.
More than 11,078 people, including over 4,500 children, have so far been killed in the attacks, according to health authorities.
Source: Agencies
