Gaza food aid grows scarce

ISRAEL'S cut-off of food, fuel, medicine and other supplies to Gaza's two million people has sent prices soaring and humanitarian groups into overdrive, trying to distribute dwindling stocks to the most vulnerable.

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The aid freeze has imperilled the tenuous progress aid workers say they have made to stave off famine over the past six weeks during Phase 1 of the ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas, agreed in January. The UN food agency says it only has enough food supplies in the Gaza Strip to keep public kitchens and bakeries open for less than two weeks.

The World Food Programme said on Wednesday that its stocks are low because it prioritised delivering food to the population.