UN: 1 million may miss food aid amid displacement, fighting in south, central Gaza
24 آب 2024 11:48
More than a million people in southern and central Gaza may not receive humanitarian food aid rations for August, the UN reports, amid repeated evacuation orders by the Israeli military on top of dire shortages of cooking gas disrupting the operation of food aid kitchens and bakeries.
The dire warning comes as the UN reports that the amount of humanitarian food aid that successfully entered southern Gaza in July was among the lowest level recorded since the start of Israel’s war on the territory in October.
“Intense fighting, damaged roads, a breakdown of law and order, and access challenges along the main humanitarian route between the Kerem Shalom Crossing and Khan Younis and Deir al Balah have led to critical food shortages,” the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UN OCHA) says in its latest flash assessment.
In Gaza’s north, food insecurity and malnutrition are believed to be “even more alarming” as no commercial supplies of food have reached the area over the past three months, according to the UN report.
The dire warning comes as the UN reports that the amount of humanitarian food aid that successfully entered southern Gaza in July was among the lowest level recorded since the start of Israel’s war on the territory in October.
“Intense fighting, damaged roads, a breakdown of law and order, and access challenges along the main humanitarian route between the Kerem Shalom Crossing and Khan Younis and Deir al Balah have led to critical food shortages,” the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UN OCHA) says in its latest flash assessment.
In Gaza’s north, food insecurity and malnutrition are believed to be “even more alarming” as no commercial supplies of food have reached the area over the past three months, according to the UN report.