The director of the main U.N. aid agency for Palestinians says Israeli restrictions are preventing food for 1.1 million people from reaching war-battered Gaza. Tens of thousands in the war-battered enclave are struggling with starvation.
That stoppage means 1,049 shipping containers of rice, flour, chickpeas, sugar and cooking oil are stuck, even as an estimated 25% of families in Gaza face catastrophic hunger.
The restrictions deepened a crisis between Israel and UNRWA, whose work has been threatened after accusations that some of its workers participated in the Oct. 7 Hamas attack.
Israel has imposed financial restrictions on the main U.N. agency providing aid in the Gaza Strip, a measure that prevented a shipment of food for 1.1 million Palestinians from reaching the war-battered enclave, the agency
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