Britain, France and Algeria called for an urgent meeting to the UN Security Council To discuss the humanitarian situation in Gaza StripWhile the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization said (FawThe food crisis in the Strip is the worst crisis documented in its history.
The British Foreign Secretary said David Lammy In a statement today, Wednesday, Israel must ensure the protection of civilians, and open roads to allow aid to arrive to save people’s lives, indicating that the Security Council meeting called for by his country, France, and Algeria will address these issues.
Lamy warned of the seriousness of the humanitarian situation in the Strip, and said, “The humanitarian situation in northern Gaza is dire, with deteriorating access to basic services and United Nations reports stating that almost no food has entered the region during the past two weeks.”
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In a related context, the FAO said that about 733 million people in the world suffered from hunger in the past year 2023, and that the food crisis in the Gaza Strip, against which Israel is waging a genocidal war, is the worst in the history of the organization’s reports.
Beth Bechdol, Deputy Director-General of the United Nations, explained that the aforementioned figure means that one in 11 people in the world suffers from hunger, and one in 5 people in Africa is in the same situation.
Bekdol stated that the food crisis in the Gaza Strip is the most serious food crisis in the history of the organization’s reports.
The UN official pointed out that 96% of the people of the Gaza Strip suffer from severe food insecurity, and that the classification of the level of food insecurity in the Gaza Strip reached No. 3 and above on the organization’s classification scale, which is the level of emergencies and disasters.
She added, “We are talking about more than two million people suffering from hunger every day out of a total of 2.2 million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.”
The Deputy Director-General of FAO stressed that peace is a basic condition for food security.
Bekdol explained that at the beginning of last September, more than two-thirds of the agricultural land in Gaza, which is equivalent to 10,183 hectares, was damaged as a result of the Israeli war of annihilation.
During the ongoing war of genocide, Israel targeted large areas of productive agricultural land, while the remaining areas were turned into camps to shelter displaced persons fleeing their areas, which were heavily targeted by the army.
