UNRWA: 500.000 Palestinians face catastrophic levels of hunger due to Israel’s ongoing aggression on the Gaza Strip

NEW YORK, JUL.9, (ST)-The World Food Program warned that half a million people in the Gaza Strip face catastrophic levels of hunger in light of the ongoing displacement during the Israeli aggression on the Strip.

The UN program said in a post on the “X” platform, according to the RT website: “Palestinian families in Gaza do not often receive full food rations on a continuous basis,” adding that unsecured access to humanitarian aid and limited stocks prevent families in Gaza from obtaining food rations they need.

In the same context, Louise Waterdig, Communications Officer at the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), said in an interview with the Canadian CBC News network: “Families in the Gaza Strip are exhausted, hungry, and do not have what they need to survive in light of forced displacement, difficult conditions, and extreme heat.

She added: “There are many desperate, hungry and tired people as a result of the ongoing Israeli war on the Gaza Strip. Palestinian families are exhausted and do not have what they need to survive.”

After the occupation army issued a new evacuation order, footage showed a continuous flow of men, women and children out of the destroyed city.

Fadel Naeem, director of the “Al-Ahli” Hospital near the evacuated area, said: “The patients and their companions fled the facility in a state of panic.”

Last month, the World Food Program provided aid to one million people, stressing that this is not enough and concluded its publication by renewing the call for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza.

Early on Monday, a six-year-old Palestinian boy died of severe malnutrition caused by Israel’s crippling blockade on the Gaza Strip.

For months, with American support, the Israeli occupation has continued a war on the Gaza Strip that has resulted in the martyrdom of tens of thousands of Palestinians, most of them children and women, amid massive destruction and famine that has claimed the lives of dozens of children, ignoring the UN Security Council resolutions to stop it immediately, and the orders of the International Court of Justice to end the Rafah invasion and take measures to prevent it from committing acts of genocide and improving the dire humanitarian situation in Gaza.

Basma Qaddour