Starving Gazans wait for more aid as UN warns of a famine: report
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Gaza: Aid groups working in the war-ravaged Gaza reports acute shortage of essential supplies, news agency AFP reported.
This comes as the UN warns of famine in the region’s northern territory by May.
Gaza has turned into a vast expanse of rubble having, as the report said, no single standing building in sight.
Aid groups, stressing the grave situation, reportedly said that ‘only a fraction of supplies’ that the remaining people required have arrived since October, according to the report.
It is obviously in this worsening situation that the UN has sought ‘urgent invention’ to save the region from slipping into famine.
When a military plane drop food aid, hungry people including children rush to the spot where it would seem to be landing.
This would trigger jostle for grabbing whatever their hands could reach out from ‘the rubble-strewn dunes’.
The news agency quoted a man named Mohamad al-Sabaawi as saying ‘People are dying just to get a can of tuna.’
Mohamad al-Sabaawi said this while ‘carrying an almost empty bag on his shoulder, a young boy beside him.’
The aid that Gaza gets now by land is around 150 vehicles a day compared to at least 500 before the war, the report citing UNRWA, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees.
As the situation turned grim, foreign governments including the US, France and Jordan began airdropping especially in areas where it is hard to reach like northern parts including Gaza City.
Meanwhile, the aircrews who drop the aid told AFP testifying the fact that the aid was insufficient.
US Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Jeremy Anderson reportedly earlier called the aid distributed as only ‘drop in the bucket’.
In the face of increasing calls to allow more aid by land, Israel accused the UN and UNRWA of ‘not distributing aid in Gaza’.
