GAZA (Palestine Foundation Information Center) The Government Media Office (GMO) in the Gaza Strip warned of Israeli attempts to circumvent the demands of international organizations to facilitate aid delivery into the Strip and to prevent famine.
The GMO confirmed in a statement on Tuesday that the northern Gaza Strip “is still suffering from famine as a result of the Israeli use of starvation as a method of warfare by closing crossings, cutting off food supplies, and bombing and destroying all elements of survival and livelihoods.”
“As the starvation has recently been escalating, many international organizations and bodies sounded the alarm weeks ago that the residents of Gaza and North Gaza governorates are exposed to a real famine, after which, international demands and US statements began to follow calling for bringing in aid and saving northern Gaza from certain famine,” the statement added.
“The Israeli occupation forces circumvented those international demands by alleviating the famine temporally and allowing some facilities by bringing in some aid shipments, most of which were loaded with flour only. In addition, a limited number of bakeries were opened under the supervision of the World Food Program,” the statement added.
The GMO said, “Based on these fake facilities, international demands and warnings disappeared, as if the causes of famine had ended or no longer existed, even though Israel has been preventing the entry of basic commodities for a month, including sugar, oil, milk, wheat, fruits, meat, eggs, among others.”
Israel has also been rationing the entry of vegetables to the extent that the majority of the citizens cannot afford their prices, amid the ongoing blocking of gas and fuel entry since the beginning of the aggression.
The GMO called on the United Nations and the international community “to take urgent action to halt the war of starvation and provide for the needs of citizens in northern Gaza.”
