The UNRWA says Israel has barred it from making aid deliveries in northern Gaza, where the threat of famine is highest.
Sam Rose, the UNRWA’s planning director, says the implications in Gaza are dramatic after almost six months of relentless war.
“An independent authority warned last week of an imminent famine and people are already dying of starvation up in the north,” he said. “And this is essentially a dead sentence on many of those people.
“The situation is particularly harsh in northern Gaza, where we estimate that about 250,000 people have been trapped.”
He also stressed that blocking the UNRWA from delivering aid is a deliberate obstruction of life-saving assistance for a population already facing starvation.
“More people will die.”
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