UN: Israeli Aid Blockade Has Turned Gaza Into the ‘Hungriest Place on Earth’

UN: Israeli Aid Blockade Has Turned Gaza Into the ‘Hungriest Place on Earth’

News May 30, 2025
UN: Israeli Aid Blockade Has Turned Gaza Into the ‘Hungriest Place on Earth’
Geneva (Quds News Network)- Israel’s aid blockade is making Gaza the “the hungriest place on Earth” with 100 percent of the population at risk of famine,” the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said on Friday. Israel is blocking all but a trickle of humanitarian aid from entering Gaza, OCHA said, with almost no ready-to-eat food entering what its spokesperson described as “the hungriest place on Earth”. Spokesperson Jens Laerke said only 600 of 900 aid trucks had been authorised to get to Israel’s border fence with Gaza, and from there a mixture of bureaucratic and security obstacles made it all but impossible to safely carry aid into the region. “What we have been able to bring in is flour,” he told a news conference in Geneva. “That’s not ready to eat, right? It needs to be cooked … 100 percent of the population of Gaza is at risk of famine.” On March 2, Israel announced the closure of Gaza’s main crossings, cutting off food, medical and humanitarian supplies, worsening a humanitarian crisis for 2.3 million Palestinians, according to reports by human rights organisations who have accused it of using starvation as a weapon of war against Palestinains. An Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) report warned that almost a quarter of the civilian population would face catastrophic levels of food insecurity (IPC Phase Five) in the coming months. Amid mounting international pressure and condemnation, Israel last week partially lifted an 11-week aid blockade on Gaza, permitting a limited amount of humanitarian assistance to enter under a controversial, US-backed plan which has drawn heavy criticism, with the UN describing the amount of aid allowed in as ‘a drop in the ocean.” Laerke said that since Israel partially eased the total aid blockade, only 900 trucks of aid have been authorized to enter. “This limited number of truckloads that are coming in… it’s a trickle,” Laerke said, describing it as “drip-feeding food.”

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