WFP: One-third of Gaza’s population goes without food for days

The United Nations World Food Programme confirmed on Friday that about one-third of the population of the Gaza Strip goes without food for days, warning that malnutrition is on the rise.

The programme said in a statement that the food crisis in Gaza has reached unprecedented levels of despair.

It added that “nearly one in three people goes without food for days, and malnutrition is on the rise, with 90,000 women and children in urgent need of treatment,” according to the Sanad News Agency.

The people of the Gaza Strip have been experiencing a wave of actual hunger since the Israeli enemy re-closed the Strip’s crossings on March 2, imposing severe restrictions on the entry of food, relief aid, fuel, and medicine into the Strip; this is a genocidal crime that has been ongoing for 22 months.

Over time, Gazans exhausted all food supplies, shops became empty, and finding a loaf of bread became almost impossible. Meanwhile, available goods saw skyrocketing prices on the black market, unaffordable for starving Palestinians.

Journalists and activists documented heartbreaking scenes of children, women, and the elderly suffering from hunger and emaciation, some lying on the ground in the streets amid scenes of devastation.

Popular and human rights demands for urgent intervention to open the crossings and allow food into the Strip escalated.

With American and European support, the Israeli enemy army has continued to commit genocidal crimes in the Gaza Strip since October 7, 2023. Since October 7, 2023, the enemy has killed 59,676 Palestinian civilians, the majority of whom are children and women, and injured 143,498 others.

This remains a preliminary toll, with thousands of victims still buried under the rubble and on the streets, unable to be reached by ambulances and rescue teams.