UNRWA: Gaza residents face risk of starvation

GAZA, May 13 (YPA) – The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) reported on Tuesday that the residents of Gaza Strip are facing the risk of starvation after 19 months of bombing and restrictions on humanitarian aid.

The UN agency said in a post on the X platform that families have been displaced multiple times and are no longer able to meet their basic needs, stressing the need to lift the blockade to allow aid to reach those in need.

On Monday, Oxfam International confirmed in a statement that the worsening famine in the Gaza Strip is the result of deliberate and planned policies, warning that the population currently facing famine there is the largest in the world.

The organization indicated that its staff on the ground witness daily the suffering of families suffering from severe hunger and children so malnourished that they are unable to cry, a scene reflecting an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe.

More than two million Palestinians in Gaza has been facing an unprecedented humanitarian crisis due to Israeli restrictions on aid entry since early March, following the collapse of the first phase of the ceasefire agreement signed under Egyptian, Qatari, and American sponsorship in January.

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