Israel’s war on Gaza live: UNRWA suspends food distribution in Rafah

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Israel’s war on Gaza live: UNRWA suspends food distribution in Rafah

People gather with jerrycans to fill up water from a tanker truck in the yard of a school of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA)

This was revealed in a recorded video by Aljezera.

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The UN’s agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, has suspended the distribution of food in Rafah, citing Israeli attacks on the city and a lack of supplies.

Gaza’s Health Ministry says 85 people have been killed and 200 injured in the latest 24-hour reporting period.

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At least seven people, including a teacher and a doctor, have been killed in an Israeli army raid on Jenin in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian. Health Ministry says.

The ICC’s chief prosecutor has said he is seeking arrest warrants for Israel’s PM Netanyahu, Defense Minister Gallant and three Hamas leaders.

The UN’s humanitarian office says that 40 percent of Gaza’s population, or more than 900,000 people, have been forcibly displaced in the last two weeks.

At least 35,647 people have been killed and 79,852 wounded in Israeli attacks on Gaza since October 7, the Gaza Health Ministry says. The revised death toll in Israel from Hamas’s attack is 1,139, with dozens still held captive.

Famine will spread with aid operations ‘near collapse’ in Gaza Abeer Etefa, a spokesperson for the UN’s World Food Program (WFP), warns “humanitarian operations in Gaza are near collapse”. If food and other supplies don’t resume entering Gaza “in massive quantities, famine-like conditions will spread”, she said.
Etefeh said WFP stopped distribution in Rafah after exhausting its stocks. It continues passing out hot meals in central Gaza and “limited distributions” of food packages there, but “food parcel stocks will run out within days”, she said.
Etefa said 10 trucks entered through the US-made pier on Friday and were taken to its warehouse in central Gaza. But a delivery Saturday of 11 trucks was stopped by crowds of Palestinians who took supplies, and only five trucks made it to the warehouse. No further deliveries came from the pier on Sunday or Monday, she said.
Entry of aid to Gaza through the two main crossings in the south has nearly ground to a halt the past two weeks since Israel launched an incursion into Rafah on May 6.

 

 

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