Ted Chaiban, Deputy Executive Director of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), stated that there are clear indicators the humanitarian situation in Gaza has surpassed the threshold of famine.
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Chaiban noted that one out of every three people in Gaza is going entire days without any food.
Meanwhile, the Director of Al-Shifa Medical Complex in Gaza confirmed that seven people, including one child, died in the past 24 hours due to Israel’s starvation policy and severe malnutrition.
As the humanitarian crisis in the besieged strip continues to worsen, the Ministry of Health in Gaza announced that the number of deaths caused by starvation has risen to 169, including 93 children.
On Saturday, the Government Media Office in Gaza reported that only 36 aid trucks entered the strip, most of which were looted or stolen amid the security chaos imposed by the Israeli occupation.
In a move that bypasses the supervision of the UN and international humanitarian organizations, Tel Aviv began on May 27 distributing aid through the so-called Gaza Relief Foundation, an entity backed by both Israel and the United States but rejected by the UN.
Palestinians warn that this aid distribution mechanism is designed to gather and forcefully displace them from their lands, paving the way for a reoccupation of Gaza.
Earlier on Saturday, the Gaza Ministry of Health reported that since May 27, 1,422 Palestinians have been killed and over 10,000 injured while waiting for food aid.
Since the beginning of the U.S.-backed genocide on October 7, 2023, more than 209,000 Palestinians have been killed or injured, the majority of them women and children. Additionally, over 10,000 are missing, and hundreds of thousands have been displaced, while famine continues to claim more lives. – (Al Jazeera)
