WFP already has to “make choices every day to take food from the hungry to give to the starving,” a UN official said.
A Palestinian girl climbs over debris a day after an operation by the Israeli Special Forces in the Nuseirat camp, in the central Gaza Strip on June 9, 2024.The UN food program has been forced to pause aid shipments through the U.S. military’s “humanitarian aid” pier in Gaza after its warehouses came under attack amid Israel’s massacre of Palestinians in Nuseirat on Saturday, the agency announced as it warned that famine is looming in Gaza.
The pause in shipments through the aid pier comes as famine is looming, if not already widespread, for Palestinians in Gaza. A recent report by the WFP and the UN Food and Agriculture Organization found that half of Gaza’s population, or over 1 million people,of facing death and starvation by mid-July — up from a quarter of the population experiencing famine in March, according to a UN-backed report published that month.
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