The UN reported this Friday that the World Food Program (WFP) has not been able to bring food into Gaza since October 1, eleven days ago, because vital aid lines to the north of the strip have been cut. cut.
“The WFP distributed its last food reserves in northern Gaza to partners and kitchens hosting recently displaced families, but they are barely enough for two weeks,” said Farhan Haq, deputy spokesperson for the Secretary General, António Guterres, at a press conference today. .
Haq added that many of the kitchens, distribution points and bakeries in northern Gaza have been forced to close, and others are at risk of doing so if the conflict “continues on this scale.”
The situation is also at its limit in southern Gaza, the spokesperson said, where food is not distributed “and bakeries struggle to obtain wheat flour – bread being the basic food of the Palestinian diet – which exposes them to closure.” any day.”
In this sense, he stressed that, due to the damage that the bakeries have suffered or due to the lack of fuel in these businesses, it is difficult to bake food.
Help at lower level
Farhan Haq also recalled that aid entering Gaza is at its lowest level in months, but that “despite the difficulties,” humanitarian organizations are responding “to the best of their ability.”
The WFP insisted in a report yesterday that if the flow of aid is not resumed, one million people will be deprived of food.
On the other hand, the spokesperson mentioned today’s attack by Israel against the headquarters of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (Finul) – the second in 48 hours – in which two blue helmets were injured.
“This is a serious incident and Finul reiterates that the safety of UN personnel and their property must be guaranteed,” he said in this regard.
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