UN warns food stocks in Gaza Strip will soon run out 09:51

Antoine Renard, Director of the World Food Program in the Palestinian Territories, warned that the organization would run out of food supplies for hundreds of thousands of people in the northern Gaza Strip within a week and a half. He said this in an interview with the newspaper. Finance Times.

Renard said the organization will no longer be able to provide hot meals to people in northern Gaza within two weeks, and that it will run out of bread within seven days unless Israel immediately authorizes a sharp increase in humanitarian supplies.

“One year after the start of the war, we still face need. [осуществления операций] on a daily basis. “This is absolutely unbearable,” he stressed.

Israel denies claims that it restricts aid shipments to the Gaza Strip. The country said yesterday that 50 trucks carrying food, water and medical supplies provided by Jordan were deployed to northern Gaza.

However, the Director of the World Food Program in the Palestinian Territories said that the amount received was not enough and that they could only collect 12 truckloads of wheat flour, which was only enough to feed a part of the population.

“The current famine is worse than before. Nothing in stock today…, [нет] You need to have endless money to buy herbs that grow in the ground and all kinds of canned food – if there is any at all,” said Ibrahim al-Kharabishi, a lawyer and father of four from the town of Jabaliya in the north of the region.

According to him, the people of Gaza have flour but no bread because they cannot light the stove because they are afraid to go out to buy wood.

With data Approximately 1.4 million people in the Gaza Strip suffer from water and food shortages, the UN estimates.

Previously reportedIt was stated that Israel attacked a building containing refugees in Gaza with phosphorous ammunition.