UN warns aid ‘not getting to people’ in Gaza, ‘children starving’

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GENEVA: The United Nations (UN) humanitarian office and World Health Organisation (WHO) on Friday warned aid is “not getting to people” in Gaza, and a...

: The United Nations humanitarian office and World Health Organisation on Friday warned aid is “not getting to people” in Gaza, and as a result, “children are starving”.

He added that it is “difficult to predict” how it would affect the humanitarian operations as a whole, considering the “very dynamic” situation on the ground with armed forces moving around to different areas. The Philadelphi Corridor is a 14-kilometre-long narrow strip of land that serves as a buffer zone on the Egypt-Gaza border and is guaranteed by the Israeli-Egyptian Peace Treaty of 1979.

“The thing that I found most shocking was 85 per cent of children did not eat for a whole day, at least once in the three days before the survey was conducted,“ Harris lamented.Israel has continued its brutal offensive on Gaza since Oct 7, 2023, despite a UN Security Council resolution demanding an immediate ceasefire.

 

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