More than a million people are at risk, according to report, as Oxfam says Israeli authorities are blocking relief deliveries
The entire population of the Gaza Strip, more than 2 million people, is facing ‘high levels of acute food insecurity’.The entire population of the Gaza Strip, more than 2 million people, is facing ‘high levels of acute food insecurity’.Famine is imminent in northern Gaza with people suffering “catastrophic levels of hunger”, a coalition of aid groups has warned.
Also on Monday, Oxfam said Israeli authorities were preventing “a warehouse full of international aid” from reaching the Gaza Strip. The IPC report named both the intensity of Israeli military operations and the extreme restrictions to humanitarian access into northern Gaza as factors that have propelled its population towards famine in just a few months.
The UN said last week: “During the first two weeks of March, 12 humanitarian aid missions to northern Gaza were facilitated by the Israeli authorities, six were denied, and six were postponed.” In two-thirds of households in northern Gaza, the report said, “people went entire days and nights without eating at least 10 times in the last 30 days. In the southern governorates, this applies to one-third of the households.”With famine imminent, Oxfam has accused Israeli authorities of doing little to obey the International Court of Justice’s instruction to facilitate relief efforts to 2 million Palestinians.
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