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    Gaza residents surviving off animal feed and grain and food becomes more scarce.

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    Gaza residents surviving off animal feed and grain and food becomes more scarce.
    • February 19, 2024 • 1 year ago
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    Gaza's 2.3m population that has been recently displaced is facing acute starvation as convoys are increasingly denied access to entry into refugee camps.
    • The U.N relief aid reported that the people living north of the isolated Gaza are going for days without food.
    • There has been increasingly more denial of permits towards aid convoys to supply the refugee camps with humanitarian supplies.
    • Some residents have resorted to grinding animal feed to survive but even those stocks are now dwindling, they say.
    • People have also resorted to digging down to access water pipes for both drinking and washing.

    Acute malnutrition among the displaced Palestinians has been reported to have risen sharply above the threshold of 15% especially among the young children the U.N humanitarian coordination agency, Ocha reported.

    The agency continued to report that more than half of the aid missions were denied access across this month and there is increasing interference from lsraeli forces on how and where the aid is delivered.

    A total of about 300,000 people has been reported to be staying in the northern areas which are largely cut off from assistance and facing a growing risk of famine. 

    However there is controversy as Cogat, the lsraeli agency tasked with coordinating aid access in Gaza said that it does not limit the amount of humanitarian aid sent to Gaza.

    The World Food Programme(WFP) reported this week that four out of the last five aid convoys into the north  had been stopped by lsraeli forces signifying a gap of two weeks between deliveries to the Gaza city.

    'Serious risk of famine'

    ????The U.N office responsible for the coordinaton of humanitarian affairs said that therer had been a sharp increase in the number of aid missions denied access to northern Gaza with 56% of the deliveries denied access across January and upto 14% in this month of February.

    lt also said that the lsraeli military at times required justifications for quantities of fuel destined for health facilities and imposed reductions on the volume of assistance such as quantity of food.

    A famine risk assessment carried out by several UN agencies estimated that almost a third of residents in northern areas could be facing a catastrophic lack of food though restrictions on accessing the area make real-time measurements very difficult.

    Families in the north are also struggling to find reliable water supplies with many having to dig deep underground for pipes inorder to access drinking water.

    Edging towards 5 months of war, the makeshift solutions towards bridging the hunger gaps are wearing thin with only few ways to restock Gaza's larder.

    The territory, which was already reliant on external food supplies before the war now has much of its agricultural industry destroyed and abandoned with new U.N figures indicating that more than half of the agricultural land in the central region has been damaged.

    A deal between lsrael and Hamas is seen by many as the only way to get more aid into Gaza and get lsraeli hostages out.

    As lsrael continues to bomb and pound Rafah ahead of a widely expected ground offensive, leaders on both sides are under tension to end th suffering of the people trapped in Gaza.

     

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