The World Food Programme said that very little food assistance has made it beyond southern Gaza since the start of the fighting and that the risk of having “pockets of famine” in the Palestinian enclave remained, Reuters reports.
“It’s difficult to get into the places where we need to get to in Gaza, especially in northern Gaza,” said Abeer Etefa, WFP spokesperson for the Middle East.
“Very little assistance has made it beyond the southern part of the Gaza Strip […] I think the risk of having pockets of famine in Gaza is very much still there.”
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