UN warns that food has not been arriving in Gaza for eleven days – DW – 10/11/2024

The World Food Program (WFP) has not been able to present food to Gaza since October 1, eleven days ago, because vital aid lines have been cut off in the north of the Strip, the United Nations reported this Friday (10/11/2024). ,

“WFP distributed the last of its food stocks in northern Gaza to partners and kitchens hosting newly displaced families, but they barely have enough for two weeks,” Farhan Haq, deputy spokesperson for Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, said at a press conference today. Are.” ,

Haq said that many kitchens, distribution points and bakeries in northern Gaza have been forced to close, and that others are at risk of doing the same if the conflict “continues on this scale”.

The situation is also at its limit in southern Gaza, the spokesman said, where food is not distributed “and bakeries struggle to obtain wheat flour – bread is the basic food of the Palestinian diet – forcing them to close any day.” Might have to.”

In this sense, he emphasized that, due to the damage that has been done to bakeries or the lack of fuel in these businesses, it is difficult to cook food.

Help at grassroots level

Farhan Haq also recalled that aid entering Gaza is at its lowest level in months, but “despite the difficulties”, humanitarian organizations are responding “to the best of their ability”.

One million people could go without food if aid flows are not restarted, WFP stressed in a report yesterday.

On the other hand, the spokesperson mentioned today’s attack by Israel against the headquarters of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (FINUL) – the second in 48 hours – in which two blue helmets were injured.

“This is a serious incident and Finul reiterates that the security of UN personnel and their property must be guaranteed,” he said.

CT (EFE, CNN)