Gaza – The United Nations World Food Program said yesterday, Tuesday, that 200 days following the Israeli war on Gaza, “half of the population of the Strip is suffering from hunger.”
The UN program explained in a brief statement on the “X” platform that it provides “necessary food aid to more than a million people every month (in the Gaza Strip), and works to operate food systems that have stopped working.”
He added: “After 200 days (of the Israeli war), half of Gaza’s population is suffering from hunger.”
Israel restricts the entry of aid into Gaza, which has led to a scarcity of food, medicine and fuel supplies and has led to a famine that is claiming the lives of children and the elderly in the Strip, which is inhabited by regarding 2.3 million Palestinians, including regarding two million displaced as a result of the war, and which Israel has besieged for 17 years.
The World Food Bank stressed that this amount of aid is “just a drop in the ocean of needs, and there is a need for a ceasefire” in the sector.
On April 20, the World Food Program announced the arrival of only 392 trucks loaded with food since the beginning of the month, indicating that the number is “almost the same rate as in March, but half the number compared to January.”
Since October 7, 2023, Israel has been waging a devastating war on Gaza that has left more than 110,000 people dead and wounded, most of them children and women, and massive destruction and famine that has claimed the lives of children and the elderly, according to Palestinian and UN data.
Israel continues its war despite the issuance of an immediate ceasefire resolution by the Security Council, and despite its appearance before the International Court of Justice on charges of committing “genocide.”
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2024-04-24 06:26:37