“Nowhere in Gaza is safe. Shelters have been impacted by airstrikes and violence,” Xinhua reported citing Samer Abdeljaber, country director for Palestine of the WFP at a press briefing on Friday.
He said that in Gaza, food was running out and there was limited access to water and electricity, affecting over two million people.
According to Abdeljaber, bakeries will shut within days if fuel is not allowed in, and people are risking their lives while cueing for hours to secure bread, yet many return to the shelters without it.
Humanitarian convoys have been trickling in since October 21 after two weeks of no cargo going into Gaza, but their scale and frequency are nowhere near enough to eliminate people’s suffering, he said.
The Israeli regime launched the war on Gaza on October 7 after the Palestinian Hamas Resistance group waged a surprise attack, dubbed Operation Al-Aqsa Storm, against the occupying entity.
Hamas said that its operation came in response to the Israeli regime’s violations at the Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East al-Quds and growing Zionist settler violence.
The Zionist regime has killed and injured thousands of Palestinians in its relentless airstrikes. It has also blocked water, food, and electricity to Gaza, plunging the coastal sliver into a humanitarian crisis.
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