New York – Saba:
The World Food Programme (WFP) confirmed that all bakeries in the central Gaza Strip were closed due to severe supply shortages, while the United Nations renewed a warning of the risk of hunger, disease, and death.
The Bread was often the only food families in Gaza could get, and now, even that is out of reach. He called for securing vital humanitarian access to Gaza.
On Friday, activists circulated on social networks pictures of two women and a girl who were suffocated by a severe stampede in front of the Al-Banna bakery in the city of Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip.
For his part, the representative of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in the occupied Palestinian territory, Ajith Sungai, said that the United Nations cannot deliver any humanitarian aid to northern Gaza "because of the occupation authorities' prevention and refusal of the passage of aid convoys."
This came during his participation, today, in a weekly press conference for the United Nations Office in Geneva.
Sungai noted that there is a risk of hunger, disease, and death in the Gaza Strip and that Palestinians are struggling to survive.
"The UN cannot deliver any humanitarian aid to northern Gaza, where some 70,000 people are believed to remain, due to the Zionist authorities' repeated blocking or refusing of humanitarian convoys," he said.
He stressed that there is a great need for humanitarian assistance, and the need for the occupation authorities to allow humanitarian aid to enter the Gaza Strip.
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