Letter to the Editor: Stop Food Blockades, End Starvation in Gaza

The war in the Gaza Strip enters its nineteenth month, while the civilian population continues to suffer and famine worsens, with more than 2.1 million Palestinians facing increasing difficulties in securing food due to the continued closure of crossings and the denial of aid entry since early March. With warnings that the situation is heading towards an unprecedented humanitarian disaster, international reports indicate that 93% of the populati…

Letter to the Editor: Stop food blockades, end starvation in Gaza

Gaza: Starvation and Exile

On May 12 the IPC, the global authority on food security, issued a dire warning. “The Gaza Strip is still confronted with a critical risk of famine,” it wrote. “Goods indispensable for people’s survival are either depleted or expected to run out in the coming weeks. The entire population is facing high levels of acute […]

In Gaza, "two million people go hungry" despite "tons of food blocked at the border, a few minutes away," criticized the director of WHO

Two million people are starving in Gaza, World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus warned today at the opening of the annual World Health Assembly. He stressed that the WHO and other United Nations agencies are ready to deliver aid to the enclave when it is allowed, reports the French news agency AFP.