One in Four Gazans Are ‘One Step Away’ From Famine, UN Says
- Agency chiefs complain of obstacles to delivery of assistance
- ‘Food supply chain’ damaged, destroyed, UN official reports
A Palestinian woman sits among makeshift tents at the Jabalia Refugee Camp in Gaza on Feb. 26.
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The United Nations warned that one in four people in the Gaza Strip are “one step away” from experiencing famine, a situation it says will further worsen as humanitarian agencies report trouble delivering aid into the war-torn area.
Some 575,000 people in Gaza are now on the verge of starvation, and essentially all of the local population is relying on food assistance to survive, said Ramesh Rajasingham, coordination director of the UN’s humanitarian office.