Gaza enters longest stretch without aid as Israel continues airstrikes
No food or supplies have entered Gaza since in over three weeks, the United Nations Agency for Palestinian Refugees said Friday, making it the longest stretch without aid entering the enclave, as Israel intensifies its military operations amid the crushing near-complete blockade, plunging the Gaza Strip into deeper desperation.
No food or supplies have entered Gaza since in over three weeks, the United Nations Agency for Palestinian Refugees said Friday, making it the longest stretch without aid entering the enclave, as Israel intensifies its military operations amid the crushing near-complete blockade, plunging the Gaza Strip into deeper desperation.
“Critical supplies, including food and medical equipment, are severely depleted and urgently needed to address the already catastrophic humanitarian crisis,” said an UNRWA report published Friday.
The World Food Programme said in an operational update Thursday that it only had enough food stocks to last another two weeks, "if supplies are stretched."
"Hundreds of thousands of people in Gaza are again at risk of severe hunger and malnutrition as humanitarian food stocks in the Strip dwindle and borders remain closed to aid," the WFP said.
The UNRWA report noted that on March 18, after Israel broke its ceasefire with Hamas with intense airstrikes, over 180 children were killed in single day, which UNICEF called “one of the largest single-day child death tolls in the last year.”
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