UNRWA warns 40% of Gaza’s population are at risk of famine

JERUSALEM: The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) has warned that not enough aid is entering the besieged Gaza Strip, leaving 40 percent of its population ‘at risk of famine’ amid Israeli curbs on entry of much-needed aid trucks to enter the enclave.

UNRWA renewed its warning that the besieged enclave is ‘grappling with catastrophic hunger’, as it reiterated calls for a ‘humanitarian ceasefire’ amid non-stop Israeli airstrikes across the enclave for over 83 days.

‘Every day is a struggle for survival, finding food and finding water,’ Thomas White, director of UNRWA affairs in Gaza was quoted as saying on X, formerly known as Twitter.

‘The reality is, we need more aid. The only remaining hope is a humanitarian ceasefire,’ the agency said on X.

Last week, the United Nations Security Council passed a resolution on more aid for Gaza after days of delays, but aid groups and rights advocates described the resolution as ‘woefully insufficient’ and ‘nearly meaningless’.

The l
atest stark warning by the UN agency on the humanitarian catastrophe unfolding in Gaza came as invading Israeli troops continued to heavily bombard the territory, further exacerbating the humanitarian crisis in the region.

More than 80 percent’s of Gaza’s 2.4 million people have been driven from their homes, the UN says, and many now live in cramped shelters or makeshift tents in the far south, in and around the city of Rafah near the Egyptian border.
Source: Palestine News and Information Agency – WAFA