UN Reports Worsening Hunger Crisis in Gaza Amid Severe Shortages, Access restrictions

Date: 10 January 2025 - 22:54

News ID: ۱۳۵۶۶۵

NEW YORK (Dispatches) – The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) reported on Friday that the hunger crisis in Gaza continues to worsen, exacerbated by severe shortages of supplies, stringent access restrictions, and violent armed looting.
In its daily report, OCHA stated that humanitarian partners in central Gaza had exhausted all their supply stocks by Sunday.
Meanwhile, Zionist regime authorities continue to block most requests to allow food aid through the Erez checkpoint, located in the West, to reach areas south of the Gaza Valley, WAFA news agency reported.
The report further highlighted that approximately 120,000 metric tons of food aid—enough to provide full rations to Gaza’s population for over three months—remain stuck outside the region.
Humanitarian partners are warning that without the delivery of additional supplies, the distribution of food parcels to starving families will remain severely limited. Over 50 community kitchens that provide more than 200,000 meals daily in central and southern Gaza are also at risk of closure in the coming days.
The World Food Program (WFP) reported that, as of Monday, only five of the 20 bakeries it supports in the sector were still operational, all of them in Gaza City. These bakeries rely on the continued delivery of fuel from partners in Southern Gaza to stay open.
OCHA also warned that the fuel shortage needed to operate generators is crippling Gaza’s already devastated health system, endangering the lives of patients. The ongoing attacks on Northern Gaza have severely disrupted healthcare services for the remaining survivors, with access to al-Awda Hospital in Jabalia—currently the only partially functional hospital in northern Gaza—being extremely limited.
Additionally, the UN has continued its efforts to reach northern Gaza, including an attempted mission Thursday, but Israeli authorities have consistently rejected these efforts, further compounding the crisis.