More than half a million Palestinians have been displaced and over 35,000 have been killed in Israel’s worst bombardment yet as the population has been driven to the tip of Gaza and is on the brink of starvation, the United Nations says. Around 450,000 Palestinians were driven out of Rafah in Gaza’s south over the past week, […]
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations food agency warned Sudan’s warring parties Friday that there is a serious risk of widespread starvation and death in Darfur and elsewhere in Sudan if they don’t allow humanitarian aid into the vast western region. Leni Kinzli, the World Food Program’s regional spokesperson, said at least 1.7 million […]
People receive food at a weekly distribution by the ICNA Relief Hunger Prevention Program in Brooklyn on Oct. 16. After pandemic food assistance ended, more than 1.7 million New York City residents rely on food stamps. Spencer Platt/Getty Images There is an ongoing hunger crisis in America. Full stop. According to a report released by […]
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has said it is time to “truly flood Gaza with life-saving aid”, calling the starvation inside the enclave a “moral outrage”. Mr Guterres also called for an immediate ceasefire between Israel and Hamas. He spoke on the Egyptian side of the border not far from the southern Gaza city of Rafah, […]
An aid ship loaded with some 200 tonnes of food has set sail from Cyprus to Gaza, the international charity behind the effort said. The shipment is a test for the opening of a sea corridor to supply aid to the territory, where starvation is spreading five months into the Israel-Hamas war. World Food Kitchen, […]
By Emma Farge GENEVA (Reuters) -A U.N. expert said on Thursday that Israel was destroying Gaza’s food system as part of a broader “starvation campaign” in its war against Hamas militants and berated a U.N. human rights body for not doing more. “The images of starvation in Gaza are unbearable and you are doing nothing,” […]
The World Food Programme (WFP) says it is receiving reports of people dying of starvation in Sudan, where a war has displaced millions of people since last April. Violence is escalating between the army and a rival paramilitary force as they fight for control of the country. Security threats and roadblocks have made the work […]