Catastrophic hunger - 40% of Gaza's population at risk of famine

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Being reported by the Guardian:

40% of Gaza’s population is at risk of famine, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency said on Saturday.

“Every day is a struggle for survival, finding food and water,” the UN agency for Palestinian refugees added.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2023/dec/30/israel-gaza-war-live-hamas-palestinians-khan-younis-deaths-un-aid-us#:~:text=40%25%20of%20Gaza's%20population%20is,is%20grappling%20with%20catastrophic%20hunger.

Too sad and completely unnecessary. If only adequate aid, food and water was allowed in.

he Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics: At least 31 deaths due to malnutrition and drought

from Twitter

Bbc
The UN says Israel is still imposing "unlawful restrictions" on aid for Gaza, despite facing increasing pressure to allow more humanitarian supplies in.
Ravina Shamdasani, a UN human rights office spokesperson, says Israel is also carrying out "widespread destruction of civilian infrastructure".
The Israeli agency which coordinates aid into Gaza - Cogat - says a food convoy entered Gaza yesterday via a new northern crossing.
The agency said on X that "126 aid trucks coordinated to northern Gaza overnight", adding that two bakeries are operational in northern Gaza "supplying 800,000 pita breads for the local population".

https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/04/1148676

More of the same

Netanyahu’s office issued a statement which also said he had told Cameron and Baerbock that Israel rejected claims by international organisations that there was starvation in Gaza. In March the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) stated that 1.1 million people in the Gaza Strip were experiencing catastrophic food insecurity.

https://twitter.com/LensVeritatis/status/1783392114497425711

An aid convoy headed for #Gaza has been attacked and ransacked by Israeli mobs. Bags of flour were pulled off trucks and torn apart.

This has happened again

https://twitter.com/QudsNen/status/1785548097281515896

5 days without aid getting in

x.com/swilkinsonbc/status/1789977252475572545?s=46

"A mob of israelis have just attacked Hashemite Charity Organisation trucks bringing necessary aid.. what low-life creature does THIS?"

It's extraordinary behaviour isn't it @lionlass particularly as the convoy from Jordan was heading for the Erez crossing [only opened yesterday] and both Rafah and Kerem Shalom are closed/too dangerous to use

x.com/shaykhsulaiman/status/1790037400351129885?s=46

Here is another video. Horrible people. And they won't suffer a single consequence.

It is getting really difficult to work out if any aid is getting in.
The internet is overwhelmed with pictures like this of repeated raids on aid trucks by Israeli settler terrorists.

I have friends who have been displaced yet again from Rafah to central Gaza, and food and water are both very scarce there (as well as experiencing constant shelling).

US-built floating pier for Gaza could start operating this week: Report

The Associated Press news agency is reporting that a floating pier built by the US military to facilitate the entry of humanitarian aid into Gaza could be operational in the coming days.

The US plan envisions aid ships travelling from Cyprus to a platform built off the coast of Gaza, where the cargo will be offloaded onto trucks. Smaller US Army vehicles will then transport the aid trucks to a pier built onshore. From there, third-party contractors will drive the trucks onto the beach and hand over the aid to humanitarian agencies.

The construction of the offshore floating platform was completed earlier this month.
Sabrina Singh, a spokeswoman for the Pentagon, said the pier and causeway – which have been assembled at the Israeli port of Ashdod – are “just waiting to be affixed to the coastline of Gaza”.

An anonymous US official told AP that the US army expects to finish anchoring the causeway onto the beach in Gaza by Wednesday or Thursday.

This is criminal vandalism destroying produce like this. I cannot understand what these protestors want to achieve, do they not think the Palestinians have suffered enough and already paid a huge price in this conflict yet they still want to inflict more pain. It is bordering on psychotic

Read earlier that Israeli police were there and ---- did nothing

No arrests

No stopping the pillage

I saw this posted today by an Israeli person and I thought it was an interesting perspective.

I'm not saying that I agree or disagree because I've never been to Israel so I don't know, I'm just saying I saw it today and found it interesting and relevant to your post.

It was an Instagram story so I'm screenshotting it because it'll disappear otherwise.

Pretty sure it's not Israelis to destroy? A lot of the aid is coming from aid organisations many of which have people donating to them. Hope they start demanding compensation for all the goodd that are being destroyed

A settler filming how his family is destroying aid. The ones he’s filming are kids younger than 10yo

https://twitter.com/QudsNen/status/1790357541001597232?s=19

Aid trucks entering Gaza on Sunday ‘not nearly enough’: US

The US State Department says the 50 aid trucks that entered the besieged coastal enclave on Sunday are “not nearly enough” and it believes more can be done to help US citizens leave the Strip.

“We’ve seen 50 trucks enter Gaza on May 12. This is not nearly enough,” department spokesman Vedant Patel said of humanitarian aid flows.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/15/un-says-it-has-no-more-food-or-tents-for-nearly-2m-people-in-gaza

https://amp.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/16/palestinian-lorry-drivers-israeli-settlers-attack-gaza-aid-convoy

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-05-16/ty-article/.premium/israeli-settlers-wound-palestinian-truck-driver-falsely-assuming-he-was-hauling-gaza-aid/0000018f-8061-d7f9-a5ff-b577b8600000

More aid destroyed by Israelis with the permission of IDF

https://twitter.com/AlonLeeGreen/status/1791014603935117378

So the trucks were on a military road out of bounds to civilians with an IDF escort but were still destroyed by 400 stone-throwing settlers whilst the army looked on - they are usually very good at dealing with this sort of scenario

What made them do nothing? We've already seen how they deal with Palestinians who they believe to be threatening aid convoys

The US pier was attached to the gazan shore overnight south east of gaza city and will be operational in 'coming days'

Major issues re distributing the aid remain unresolved particularly that the UN have no fuel for their trucks to take it to the starving people