Aid trucks of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees in the Near East deliver aid to Salah al-Din Street on the fourth day of Eid al-Adha in the east of Gaza City, Gaza on June 19, 2024.It’s a harsh reality for all, including humanitarian workers trying to survive themselves while providing much-needed assistance in the coastal enclave devastated by eight months of war.
The ongoing tensions between the U.N., humanitarian organizations and Israel over the hurdles in distributing aid to Gazans come as a recentfrom the U.N.-backed Integrated Food Security Phase Classification stated that 500,000 Palestinians are on the brink of starvation. The report additionally stated that 95% of the population is at “crisis” level or worse. The IPC also warned that a “high risk” of famine will only deepen “as long as conflict continues, and humanitarian access is restricted.
An aid worker who also requested anonymity for security reasons told NPR that Gazans have grown to distrust efforts to distribute aid. She said little aid is available, and if it is, they’re goods sold privately on the market “at exorbitant prices.” “People are enduring subhuman conditions, resorting to desperate measures like boiling weeds, eating animal feed, and exchanging clothes for money to stave off hunger and keep their children alive,” she said.
large shipments of aid during March and April into the strip helped ameliorate the threat of mass hunger in the spring, but that threat returned after Israel’s offensive in Rafah last month, that has collapsed much of the existing infrastructure for delivering aid.
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