People living in the isolated north of Gaza have told the BBC that children are going without food for days, as aid convoys are increasingly denied permits to enter. Some residents have resorted to grinding animal feed into flour to survive, but even stocks of those grains are now dwindling, they say.
People have also described digging down into the soil to access water pipes, for drinking and washing.
The UN has warned that acute malnutrition among young children in the north has risen sharply, and is now above the critical threshold of 15%.
The UN's humanitarian coordination agency, Ocha, says more than half the aid missions to the north of Gaza were denied access last month, and that there is increasing interference from Israeli forces in how and where aid is delivered.
It says 300,000 people estimated to be living in northern areas are largely cut off from assistance, and face a growing risk of famine.
A spokesman for the Israeli military agency tasked with coordinating aid access in Gaza said in a briefing last month that there was "no starvation in Gaza. Period." The agency, Cogat, has repeatedly said it does not limit the amount of humanitarian aid sent to Gaza.
significant volumes of food assistance on a regular basis," said the WFP regional chief, Matt Hollingworth.
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (Ocha) said there had been a sharp increase in the number of aid missions denied access to northern Gaza: with 56% of deliveries denied access in January, up from 14% in October to December.
@Politic4lRuffsDemocrat4mos4MO
We reap what we sow. The Gazans supported Hamas. If you attack a stronger person and then they beat you badly, crying about the unfairness of it all is laughable.
The Palestinians have made every bad decision possible since 1948.
@8XPLW6M 4mos4MO
“The Gazans supported Hamas.”
Most Gazans are under 18. AKA, children. How are they supposed to support Hamas when half of their population is children?
@EcstaticLionSocialist4mos4MO
I guess that it is ok with you if one of your neighbors with bigger guns wipes out your family and burns down your house just because one of you kids beat up his kid. I am sure that you would say... well.. you reap what you sow...c'est La vie...
@SuperPACPenguinRepublican4mos4MO
If only Hamas would not take their food ...
@BoredPorpoiseGreen4mos4MO
Is Hamas an excuse for committing a genocide in Gaza? Were a few corrupt *** bankers valid excuse for genocide in Germany?
@CivilRightsRatRepublican4mos4MO
There's plenty of aid and if there's not you should ask Hamas who is living in luxury in Qatar and has stolen at least 10 billion dollars from aid that was meant to feed children.
The aid trucks are being blocked by the families of Israeli Hostages but no one wants to say that.
@DelegateDomConstitution4mos4MO
Many countries in Africa and the Middle East have similar if not worse situations than Gaza for decades, but no-one cares because Muslims and Africans are the perpetrators.
@GiddyDiplom4cyDemocrat4mos4MO
Why hasn’t Egypt or other nearby Arab countries taken them in as refugees? 5 million Ukrainians are dispossessed and barely a word said…..
@HarmoniousPublicPol1cyGreen4mos4MO
So your solution instead of blaming Israel for their barbaric and indiscriminate genocide, for them preventing and targeting aid trucks, you answer is blaming the victims and asking them to leave their homes to the unknown??
I really do not understand the logic behind this
@FierceLegislationRepublican4mos4MO
Actions have consequences. If any other military group invaded, raped and took hostages from any other country the response would be the same. Don't start fights you can't win
@9JVBTHNPeace and Freedom4mos4MO
i think there should be peace in Palestine and everyone should be free. The bombing should stop. People should live their life and eat normal food.
@9JV34MD 4mos4MO
I’m sick of my tax dollars being used on Israel’s genocide mission. They steal Palestinian generational homes, and they murder and terrorize them with their occupation.
@9JTZN384mos4MO
The continued suffering of 300 thousand people is the headline which I find to be most 'important'.
@8XPLW6M4mos4MO
I feel sorry for the citizens living like this. Inhumane.
@9JTSHJR4mos4MO
My opinion is US economy will dropped and will be out of money.
@9JTQ7FD4mos4MO
It's affecting a mass of people, instead of one specific person.
@9JTQ3GV4mos4MO
If the USA is to be investing in the conflict, it should result in a swift end to the conflict entirely.
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