The head of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East(UNRWA) warned of the risk of famine in Gaza, on Wednesday, reports BSS/AFP.
Philippe Lazzarini, UNRWA chief, told a press conference in Berlin that "there is a real risk today... that we enter a situation where famine or acute malnutrition is unfortunately again a likelihood,"
Vast areas of Gaza have been completely obliterated by Israel's assault in the region.
Israel has been intensifying operations in the northern part of the Palestinian territory, where hundreds of thousands of people are trapped.
Lazzarini painted a dire picture of the humanitarian situation in Gaza, saying it had "become a kind of wasteland, which I would say is almost unliveable".
In relation to aid deliveries to Gaza, he said that "over the last two to three weeks there was no convoy entering into the north except yesterday".
"We have a huge drop of convoys in the south with only an average of fifty to sixty for two million people, while we estimate the number needed much, much higher," Lazzarini said.
Convoys that had managed to enter had been subject to looting "because of the total breakdown of law and order," said Lazzarini.
If convoys could enter Gaza, the hunger crisis in Gaza might be avoid
"We have shown that we can have a polio campaign, so why can we not bring food?" he asked.
According to US State Department, Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin sent a joint letter making "clear to the government of Israel that there are changes that they need to make again to see that the level of assistance making it into Gaza comes back up from the very, very low levels that it is at today".
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