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to caution World Food Programme Follower To the United Nations The risk of famine in Gaza stripstressing that the supplies are completely insufficient to deal with the level of hunger monitored by program staff in United Nations shelters and other displacement sites.
In a press release on Tuesday evening, the World Food Program said that it is very likely that Gazans, especially women and children, will be at high risk of famine if continuous access to food is not guaranteed.
The statement added that the program delivered much-needed food to more than 120,000 people in Gaza during the initial period of the humanitarian truce.
Corinne Fleischer, Director of the World Food Program for the Middle East, North Africa and Eastern Europe, said, “Thanks to the temporary truce, our teams have begun working on the ground and entering areas that we have not reached for a long time. What we are seeing is catastrophic.”
She added that the threat of famine and starvation is unfolding before everyone’s eyes, and to prevent this from happening, the program must be able to bring food on a large scale and distribute it safely.
She stressed that a few days are not enough to provide all the required assistance, adding that Gazans must eat every day and not just for 6 days.
In turn, the World Food Program representative and country director in Palestine, Samer Abdel Jaber, said that the program teams told them what they saw of devastation, hunger and despair among people who had not received any relief for weeks.
He said that Temporary truce He granted relief, stressing that humanitarian access must continue in a safe and unhindered manner.
Before entering a temporary humanitarian truce last Friday, the Israeli occupation army launched a devastating war on the Gaza Strip since the seventh of last October, leaving more than 15,000 martyrs, including more than 10,000 children and women, while about 7,000 people are still in prison. Missing people, and the number of injured exceeded 36 thousand.
