Half of the residents of the Gaza Strip suffer from severe hunger, 90% do not receive regular food, reports TASS.
World Food Program (WFP) Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa Corinne Fleischer said 50% of Gaza’s population is in extreme or severe hunger, and 90% of residents regularly go entire days without food.
Over the past 70 days, only 10% of the food needed for the enclave’s 2.2 million residents has reached Gaza. The situation in the northern part of the enclave is considered catastrophic.
WHO head Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, in turn, called the health situation in Gaza “catastrophic.” Speaking at a special session of the WHO Executive Board on December 10, he expressed fears that the situation would be almost impossible to improve even if the WHO proposal to improve access to medical care for Palestinians was accepted.
On December 14, WFP Deputy Executive Director Karl Skau said the UN was reviewing evidence of the use of hunger as a weapon in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict but had not yet reached a definitive conclusion.
