The World Food Program (WFP) warns of the limited aid that continues to arrive in the north of the enclave. He denounced the lack of aid that has reached the northern half of the strip since the Israeli offensive began last October. There are shortages of food, water, fuel and medicine, and the United Nations warns that the few trucks entering Gaza do so only through Egypt's Rafah border crossing and do not go to the north, where there is a risk of one deadly combination of hunger, malnutrition and disease.
“In the months we have been here I have not received any food parcels or vouchers and there are thousands like me. To be honest, the trucks that are arriving are not enough,” said a displaced Gaza resident in Khan Yunis.
9 out of 10 Palestinians admit that they cannot eat every day
The UN presents a “desperate” situation that is no longer tenable Half of Gaza's population is at risk of starvation and 90% of Palestinians cannot afford to eat every day.
For its part, Hamas warns that at least half a million Palestinian citizens are at risk of dying of hunger due to the constant attacks by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) on the north of the Gaza Strip. According to a senior Hamas official, Osama Hamdan, The Palestinian population has reached a point where they “have to grind animal feed to feed themselves due to a lack of food.”, a situation for which Israel and its ally the United States are responsible. “We hold the Israeli government and the Biden administration responsible for the massacres of our people and call on international organizations to declare the northern Gaza Strip a famine zone,” this senior Hamas official added.
The Israeli army ignores the complaints of the UN and NGOs and denies that famines are being recorded in the Gaza Strip.
The Netanyahu government recalls that an average of 130 trucks carrying humanitarian aid, especially food and water, have arrived in the Palestinian enclave since the offensive began.