Children wait for their turn to get food distributed by charity kitchens in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip (Reuters)
The Palestinian Red Crescent in Gaza confirmed on Wednesday that there had been deaths due to hunger and food shortages in the Strip, at a time when warnings were repeated internally and externally about the worsening of the crisis, in light of the scarcity of aid and the continuation of the devastating Israeli aggression.
The director of government information in Gaza, Ismail Al-Thawabta, said yesterday that the residents of Gaza have entered an advanced stage of famine. He added in an interview with Al Jazeera that only 9 aid trucks had entered 10 days ago, and he appealed to open the Rafah crossing immediately to bring urgent aid into the Strip.
Below are new scenes that show some of the scale of the tragedy and the horror of the suffering facing the residents and displaced people in the Gaza Strip. Due to food shortages and the specter of famine:
Children line up to get food distributed by charity kitchens in Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip (Reuters)
A government official in Gaza said that the residents of Gaza have entered an advanced stage of famine (European)
Trucks carrying humanitarian aid on the Egyptian side of the Rafah border crossing with the Gaza Strip (French)
The scarcity of aid and the continued Israeli aggression exacerbated the food crisis in Gaza (Reuters)
United Nations vehicles near a gathering of trucks carrying food aid at the Rafah crossing (French)
The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) described the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip as catastrophic (Reuters)
The Palestinian Red Crescent in Gaza confirmed deaths in Gaza due to hunger (Reuters)
An area near the border with Gaza that the Egyptian authorities said they had designated for the gathering of aid trucks (Reuters)
A child in Rafah eats a meal provided by relief organizations (Reuters)
UNICEF said that 1 in 6 children in northern Gaza suffer from malnutrition (Reuters)
United Nations: Bringing in aid without restrictions or conditions has become an urgent necessity for the residents of the Gaza Strip (Anatolia)
Due to the scarcity of aid, Palestinians in the northern Gaza Strip were forced to grind animal fodder to survive (Anatolia)
Source: Agencies