ROME: The main UN aid agencies on Tuesday called for Gaza to be flooded with humanitarian assistance, warning that "time is running out" and that the Palestinian territory is "on the brink of a full-scale famine." "We need to flood Gaza with large-scale food aid, immediately and without obstruction, and keep it flowing each and every day to prevent mass starvation," the World Food Programme's (WFP) Executive Director Cindy McCain said in a joint statement with UNICEF and the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO).
The humanitarian disaster in Gaza is reminiscent of last century's famines in Ethiopia and Nigeria's Biafra region which jointly claimed over two million lives, the UN food agency warned Tuesday. The IPC, a UN-backed group of organisations used as a monitor to gauge malnutrition, said "immediate, unimpeded" humanitarian access into Gaza was needed to stop more "starvation and death". — AFP
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