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News ID: 133987
Publish Date : 25 November 2024 - 21:10

UNRWA: Only 6% of Gaza’s Food Needs Being Met

GAZA (Dispatches) – The UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) has confirmed that the food supplies entering the Gaza Strip meet only six per cent of people’s needs, the Palestinian Information Centre reported.
UNRWA said that the Zionist occupation allows limited quantities of flour and food supplies through the crossings, which cover just six percent of the required needs. 
The agency highlighted that this situation has led to a severe crisis in Gaza, particularly in accessing bread, forcing most bakeries in the southern part of the enclave to shut down.
The agency added that over two million displaced people in Gaza suffer from hunger, thirst, disease and fear. Families find it nearly impossible to secure meals, as conditions in displacement camps and shelters remain dire due to hunger, cold and the inability of international organizations to provide adequate humanitarian aid amidst severe food shortages. It called for the full reopening of crossings to allow essential supplies to prevent widespread famine, with malnutrition and disease already present.
Northern Gaza is enduring especially harsh conditions, said UNRWA, with a critical shortage of drinking water, medicines and food supplies. The continued blockade on humanitarian aid, coupled with ongoing airstrikes, artillery shelling, land leveling and demolitions, has deepened the humanitarian crisis.
Meanwhile, the Civil Defense in the Gaza Strip has warned of a “humanitarian disaster” due to rainwater, which could cause flooding and damage to the tents of displaced people.
The Civil Defense Authority said in a press statement that “due to the rain, the tents of the displaced people in the Yarmouk Stadium shelter camp, the Gaza Municipality Park, the Beach Camp, and the tents set up in schools in Gaza City were damaged.”
“We are facing a catastrophic humanitarian scene if the displaced people in the camps continue in this condition, especially in light of the damage to many of their tents and their unsuitability for shelter,” it added.
The authority expressed concern that conditions may deteriorate with the onset of winter. 
The Zionist regime’s occupation army has continued its aggressive war on Gaza for 415 consecutive days. 
At least 44,000 Palestinians have been killed, with 105,000 wounded, mainly women and children. An estimated 11,000 more people are missing, presumed dead, under the rubble of their homes and other civilian infrastructure destroyed by the occupation forces.