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Famine Looms Over Gaza as Aid Convoys Stall

UN humanitarian leaders warn that restricting aid to Gaza could constitute a war crime

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Overview

  • The World Food Programme reports more than 500,000 Gazans are facing famine-like conditions amid severe shortages of food supplies
  • Despite declared tactical pauses, two of 11 UN aid convoys were blocked on Sunday and only seven have fully passed into Gaza
  • Since last Friday the World Health Organization has delivered 24 trucks carrying essential medicines, trauma kits and water testing supplies
  • An Israeli strike on the Palestinian Red Crescent Society headquarters in Khan Younis killed one staff member and injured three others at a facility protected under international humanitarian law
  • Militants released footage of two severely emaciated Israeli hostages, intensifying calls for the immediate release of 49 captives, 27 of whom the Israeli military says have died