A boy looks on near a man talking to other men sitting in a vehicle while behind a cloud of smoke erupts from Israeli bombardment on the northern Gaza Strip, in Beit Lahia. AFP
“WFP has approximately 5,700 tons of food stocks left in Gaza – enough to support WFP operations for a maximum of two weeks,” the Rome-based agency said in a statement.
Israel resumed its genocidal war on the Palestinian territory just over a week ago, shattering weeks of relative calm brought by a fragile ceasefire.
The United Nations said on Wednesday that the renewed Israeli genocide had displaced 142,000 people in just seven days, and warned of dwindling supplies after Israel resumed a blockade on humanitarian aid entering Gaza.
WFP said Thursday that it and others in the food security sector had been “unable to bring new food supplies into Gaza for more than three weeks.”
“Hundreds of thousands of people in Gaza are again at risk of severe hunger and malnutrition as humanitarian food stocks in the Strip dwindle and borders remain closed to aid,” it said.
“Meanwhile, the expansion of military activity in Gaza is severely disrupting food assistance operations and putting the lives of aid workers at risk every day,” WFP added.
The agency said that due to the deteriorating security situation and rapid displacement of people, it will “distribute as much food as possible, as quickly as possible.”
It is reducing individual rations so the agency can feed more people overall. It plans to distribute food parcels to half a million people, meaning the packages will feed a family for roughly one week, it said.
Israel’s genocidal war has killed at least 50,208 people in Gaza and injured more than 113,910, mostly women and children, according to the territory's health ministry.
*This story was edited by Ahram Online.
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