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U.N. humanitarian official warns Gaza faces widespread famine risk, urges immediate access and end to blockade
Summary
A United Nations humanitarian official told the Security Council that Gaza faces mass famine and that humanitarian access remains obstructed; the official criticized Israel's distribution modality, cited International Court of Justice provisional measures and U.N. resolutions, and urged the lifting of the blockade and protection of civilians.
A United Nations humanitarian official told the Security Council that the Gaza Strip faces widespread famine and that current restrictions on aid threaten hundreds of thousands of lives. "Every single 1 of the 2,100,000 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip face the risk of famine," the official said, and added that "1 in 5 face starvation despite the fact that you have funded the food that could save them."
The official said that more than 10 weeks of blocked goods left Gaza without food, medicine, water or tents and that hospitals and medics are overwhelmed. "The few hospitals that have somehow survived bombardment are overwhelmed," the speaker said, and described repeated attacks on medical facilities, citing the European Gaza hospital in Khan Yunis as having been struck again with additional civilian casualties.
The statement framed the crisis as the result of deliberate restrictions and described the Israeli-proposed distribution plan as insufficient and harmful. "The Israeli design…
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