Gaza at breaking point and desperation is soaring, says food agency chief after visit

I met starving children receiving treatment for severe malnutrition: McCain

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The head of the UN’s World Food Programme warned yesterday that famine-hit Gaza is “at breaking point”, appealing for the urgent revival of its network of 200 food distribution points.

“Enough is enough,” the WFP’s executive director, Cindy McCain, said after visiting the besieged territory, where Israel is pressing operations in its offensive against Hamas.

“Gaza is at a breaking point. Desperation is soaring — and I saw it firsthand,” McCain said in a statement.

Her comments come less than a week after the United Nations declared a famine in Gaza, blaming the “systematic obstruction” of humanitarian deliveries by Israel. Israel dismissed the report as “fabricated”.