CAIRO/JERUSALEM/LONDON: Extreme food shortages in parts of the Gaza Strip have already exceeded
Children carry bags of flour outside an UNRWA compound after humanitarian aid was distributed in Gaza City.
The Integrated Food-Security Phase Classification , whose assessments are relied on by UN agencies, said 70 per cent of people in parts of northern Gaza were suffering the most severe level of food shortage, more than triple the 20 per cent threshold to be considered famine. Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz responded that Borrell should"stop attacking Israel and recognise our right to self-defence against Hamas' crimes".
Israel, which initially allowed aid into Gaza through only two checkpoints on the enclave's southern edge, says it is opening more routes by land, as well as allowing sea shipments and air drops. The first boat carrying aid arrived last week.In the ruins of Gaza City, the main settlement in the north of the Gaza Strip, Israeli forces launched a major assault on Al Shifa hospital overnight.
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