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Children ‘dying’ of hunger in Gaza, warns UN food agency

Monday, 08 April 2024 6:40 AM [ Last Update: Monday, 08 April 2024 10:57 AM ]

Palestinians line up for free food during the ongoing Israeli war on the Gaza Strip, in Rafah, on January 9, 2024. (Photo by AP)

The UN World Food Program (WFP) has raised the alarm on the dire humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip amid a genocidal Israeli war, saying children are starving to death in the besieged Palestinian territory.

WFP Executive Director Cindy McCain made the remarks in an interview with CNN on Sunday, as the Tel Aviv regime has been using food as a weapon of war and deliberately blocking aid deliveries to Gaza over the past six months.

Asked about the impact of food shortage in Gaza, especially for children, McCain replied, “Well, children are dying as we speak.”

“And those that are not dying or haven’t died yet are so emaciated and lacking so much in the way of important nutrients at this particular time in their life cycles, they won’t -- if they do live, they will never recover from it,” she added.

Deaths of Gaza children ‘stain on all of humanity’: WHO chief

WHO chief says the high number of children casualties in Gaza “will remain a stain on all of humanity,” while calling for an end to the Israeli regime’s ongoing genocidal war in the besieged enclave.

She also warned that Gaza is “literally on the brink of going over the edge, over the cliff with famine and not being able to recover from it.”

The WFP chief further stressed the importance of opening Gaza’s crossings closed by Israel, saying the agency has food for 1.1 million people for three months amassed on the border and just needs to be let into the territory.

“People are desperate,” she said. “We, as humanitarians, must be able to get in with our humanitarian principles and deliver aid in such a way.”

Israel waged its brutal US-backed war on the Gaza Strip on October 7 after the Hamas resistance movement carried out its historic operation against the usurping entity in retaliation for the regime’s intensified atrocities against the Palestinian people.

So far, the occupying regime has killed at least 33,175 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and injured 75,886 others.

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