Palestinian children wait to receive food cooked by a charity kitchen amid shortages of food supplies, as the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas continues, in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, February 20, 2024.
The World Food Program said Tuesday it was forced to pause deliveries of food aid to isolated northern Gaza because of the "complete chaos and violence due to the collapse of civil order," further hiking fears of potential starvation.
Entry of aid trucks into the besieged territory has sharply declined by more than half the past two weeks, according to UN figures. Heavy fighting and airstrikes have flared in the past two days in areas of northern Gaza that the Israeli military said had been largely cleared of Hamas weeks ago. "The situation is beyond your imagination," said Soad Abu Hussein, a widow and mother of five children sheltering in a school in Jabaliya refugee camp. Ayman Abu Awad, who lives in Zaytoun, said he eats one meal a day to save whatever he can for his four children. "People have eaten whatever they find, including animal feed and rotten bread," he said.
Palestinians receive food rations at a donation point at a camp for internally displaced people in Rafah on Feb. 2. Under U.S. pressure, it began to allow a trickle of aid trucks to enter from Egypt at the Rafah crossing, and in December opened one crossing from Israel into southern Gaza, Kerem Shalom.But the number entering has fallen since Feb. 9 to an average of around 60 a day from an average of more than 140 daily in January, according to figures from the UN office for humanitarian co-ordination, known as OCHA.
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