Where: Two million people starve in Gaza

The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) today warned of the growing risk of starvation in the Gaza Strip, where “two million people are starving”, according to him. “The risk of starvation in Gaza is increasing with the deliberate withholding of humanitarian aid, including food, in the context of the exclusion that is continuing,” said its general manager, Tedros Antanom Gembreges, at the start of the annual meeting of the Member States. “Two million people are starving, while tons of food are excluded on the border, a few minutes away,” he said. Taking pressure from abroad to block the Palestinians in Gaza, Israel announced yesterday that it will allow the limited resumption of humanitarian aid, while launching “large -scale land” in Gaza. The decision to allow aid to enter the Palestinian enclave for more than two months after being excluded from Israel to Gaza since March 2 is “difficult but necessary” according to Israeli […]
Source: News Beast

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