Death of NGO staff in Gaza causes another NGO to suspend operations, affecting humanitarian situation. More than half of the population is on the brink of famine, and everyone is severely food insecure and undernourished.
The fighting, which has continued for nearly six months since October last year, has caused widespread damage to all kinds of facilities in the Gaza Strip. The World Bank and the United Nations estimated that by the end of January, the damage had been estimated at $18.5 billion, in Japanese yen.