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The World Food Programme (WFP) has been forced to reduce rations for families in Gaza to ensure broader coverage for newly displaced people, it said today.
“Food stocks and humanitarian supplies in central and southern Gaza are very limited and barely any commercial supplies are going in,” WFP said in a post on X.
Calling for a ceasefire the WFP added: “Nowhere in #Gaza is safe… Food stocks and humanitarian supplies in central and southern Gaza are very limited and barely any commercial supplies are going in.”
Israel is accused of hindering the entry of humanitarian aid into the besieged enclave, including food, water and medicines.
According to the UN: “Israel’s restriction of humanitarian access into the Gaza Strip, particularly the Strip’s northern parts, and its impeding the timely delivery of life-saving food supplies is drastically worsening the already-dire food insecurity faced by the Palestinian population there.”
This has resulted in what EU foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, has described as a “man-made famine”, with dozens of children dying as a result of malnutrition.
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