Ghetto imagesThe UN World Food Program says it has exhausted all its food supplies in Gaza, where Israel has blocked the supplies of humanitarian aid for seven weeks.
“Today, WFP has delivered its last remaining food in kitchens with hot meals,” he warned. “These kitchens are expected to expire completely in the coming days.”
Israel interrupted the help of March 2 and resumed its offensive two weeks later after the collapse of a two-month end of fire, saying that it puts pressure on Hamas to release his other hostages.
The UN says Israel is obliged by international legislation to provide supplies to 2.1 million Palestinians in Gaza. Israel says he is in charge of international law and has no shortage of help.
At the end of March, all 25 bakeries, backed by WFP in Gaza, were forced to close after wheat flour and cooking. Food plots, distributed to families containing two weeks, were also exhausted.
According to the UN, malnutrition is also deteriorating. Last week, one of his humanitarian partners checked 1,300 children in North Gaza and identified more than 80 cases of acute malnutrition – a double increase compared to the previous weeks.
The UN Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) says there is also a serious shortage of medicine, medical consumables and hospitals buried by victims of Israeli bombing and that fuel deficiency impedes the production and distribution of water.
The CEO of the World Health Organization (WHO), Dr. Tedros Adhanom Gebrees, said that a “terrible and gloomy moment” was reached in Gaza.
“This help blockade must end. Life depends on it.”
WFP said the current Israeli blockade – the longest closure of the gas has ever encountered – has already exacerbated the fragile markets and food systems.
Food prices have increased by up to 1400% compared to the termination of fire and the shortage of basic goods caused serious problems with nutrition for the vulnerable population, including children under five, pregnant and breastfeeding women and the elderly, warned.
“The situation inside the Gaza strip has reached a point of interruption again: people are running out of ways to cope, and the fragile profits achieved during the brief end of fire.
“WFP calls on all parties to prioritize the needs of civilians and to allow the assistance to enter the gas immediately and to observe its obligations under the international humanitarian law.”
More than 116,000 tonnes of nutrition – enough to feed one million people up to four months old – is positioned on corridors for help and is ready to be delivered as soon as Israel opened the border crossings of the gas again, according to the agency.
Meanwhile, WFP Country Antoine Renard director told the BBC that the agency was trying everything possible to maintain hot meal kitchens.
“More than 80% of the population … have been displaced during the war. And from March 18 alone (when the Israeli offensive restart), you have more than 400,000 people who have been displaced once again,” he said.
“Every time you move, every time you lose assets. So these kitchens are so important for people to have basic food.”
However, even when they are completely delivered, kitchens reach only half of the population with only 25% of the daily food needs.
Gavin Keleher, a humanitarian manager to the Norwegian refugee Council, told the BBC from central gas that after the grocery stocks have expired, they will no longer be able to provide anything.
To survive, he said, people are eating less, barterial to “exchange a bag of lentil or cooking oils” or to sell what things they have left to try to get money to access other food supplies.
He added that begging was also being held on a scale that was not visible before in Gaza, but that people were no longer able to give others.
“Despair is really, really heavy.”
WFPEarlier this week, the Israeli Foreign Ministry rejected criticism of the blockade from the United Kingdom, France and Germany, which called it “intolerable” and demanded to finish immediately in a joint statement.
The ministry said more than 25,000 trucks carrying nearly 450,000 tonnes of assistance have entered Gaza during the armistice, adding: “Israel is watching the situation on the spot and has no shortage of assistance in Gaza.”
He also said that Israel was not obliged to help, as Hamas was “abducted” supplies to restore his terrorist machine.
Previously, Hamas denied stealing help, and the UN said he had kept “a very good custody chain throughout the aid that was delivered.”
Last week, Hamas rejected the proposal for Israeli for a new termination of fire, which included a demand for disarms in exchange for a six-week pause in hostilities and the release of 10 of the 59 hostages still captured. The group reiterated that it would hand over all hostages in exchange for the termination of the war and the complete withdrawal of Israel.
The Israeli military launched a campaign to destroy Hamas in response to an unprecedented cross -border attack on October 7, 2023, which killed about 1,200 people and 251 others were taken hostage.
Since then, at least 51 439 people have been killed in Gaza, according to the health ministry in Hamas.