[Salon] Mass starvation’ across Gaza



Mass starvation’ across Gaza 

Aid organisations issue warning while the UN says more than a thousand Palestinians have been killed queueing for food in the past two months


https://www.thetimes.com/world/middle-east/article/gaza-starving-trump-2tgwzswsc

More than 100 aid organisations warned on Wednesday that “mass starvation” was spreading across the Gaza Strip as President Trump intervened to put more pressure on Israel to change its tactics.
In a statement, the 111 signatories — including Doctors Without Borders (MSF), Save the Children and Oxfam — warned that “our colleagues and those we serve are wasting away”.
“As the Israeli government’s siege starves the people of Gaza, aid workers are now joining the same food lines, risking being shot just to feed their families,” the statement read.
It came as the United Nations said that more than a thousand Palestinians have been killed as they queued for aid in Gaza in the past two months. 
The UN’s human rights office said Israeli troops or other gunmen had shot 1,054 people since late May, of whom 766 were killed near sites run by the Israeli and US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF). The rest were killed while trying to reach UN aid convoys.
Israeli officials said they had not identified a famine in Gaza and blamed United Nations bodies for not collecting and distributing food and supplies. Some 950 trucks’ worth of supplies were waiting to be collected by the UN from the Palestinian side of the Kerem Shalom and Zikim crossings, according to Cogat, an Israeli military agency.
According to the UN, Israel’s restrictions and permit rejections are the reason for the mounting stockpiles at the border points, as aid organisations are regularly barred from transferring aid to warehouses and distribution sites, or risk coming under fire from the Israeli army if they do not obtain permissions



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