The World Food Programme will run out of supplies to provide food to the hundreds of thousands of people in north Gaza in a week and a half if Israel does not immediately allow a sharp increase in aid deliveries, its director in the Palestinian territories has warned.
The already catastrophic conditions in northern Gaza have deteriorated rapidly in recent days, as Israel launched a massive new offensive in the area and prevented the UN from providing any aid to the north for two weeks, according to the head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees. Even before these moves, aid groups had warned that the roughly 400,000 people still estimated to be living in northern Gaza were facing acute food insecurity.
Amid mounting international alarm, US secretary of state Antony Blinken and secretary of defence Lloyd Austin wrote to Israeli officials this week, warning that US military aid to Israel could be at risk if it did not take steps to improve humanitarian conditions in the next 30 days. But in an interview with the Financial Times, Antoine Renard, the WFP’s director in Palestine, said supplies were set to run out much sooner than that.
He said the programme would no longer be able to provide warm meals to people in north Gaza in a week and a half and would be unable to provide bread in a week if aid deliveries did not increase significantly.
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