WFP says only two weeks’ food left for Palestinians

Israeli attacks kill a family of 6 and a Hamas spokesman in Gaza Strip, while a drone strike leaves 3 dead in southern Lebanon

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The World Food Programme (WFP) warned on Thursday it had only two weeks’ worth of food left in Gaza, where “hundreds of thousands of people” are at risk of severe hunger and malnutrition.

WFP has approximately 5,700 tonnes of food stocks left in Gaza—enough to support WFP operations for a maximum of two weeks,” the Rome-based The United Nations’ (UN) agency said in a statement.

Israel detained military operations in the Palestinian territory just over a week ago, shattering weeks of relative calm brought by a fragile ceasefire.

The UN said on Wednesday that the renewed Israeli operation had displaced 48,000 people in just seven days, and warned of dwindling supplies after Israel resumed a block on humanitarian aid entering Gaza.

WFP said on Thursday that it and others in the aid and security sector had been “unable to bring new food supplies into Gaza for more than three weeks.”

“Hundreds of thousands of people in Gaza are again at risk of severe hunger and malnutrition as humanitarian food stocks in the Strip dwindle and borders remain closed to aid,” it said.