UN describes Gaza as 'hungriest place on earth'

The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has said that besieged Gaza is "the hungriest place on earth", urging for the aid to be immediately allowed.

"Right now, nearly 180,000 pallets of food and other life-saving aid stand ready to enter Gaza, the hungriest place on earth," Jens Laerke, OCHA spokesperson, told UN News.

"The supplies have already been paid for by the world's donors. It is cleared for customs, approved and ready to move. We can get the aid in – immediately, at scale and for as long as necessary," he added.

Laerke insisted that the agency has "everything needed to get aid to civilians safely."

Since March, Israel has blocked food aid from entering the blockaded enclave, leaving Palestinians to starve.

'Systematic disinformation campaign'

Meanwhile, local authorities in Gaza refuted Israeli claims accusing Hamas of hoarding flour in warehouses, saying this is a part of a "systematic disinformation campaign" by Tel Aviv to avoid international responsibility of using hunger as a weapon of war.

Israeli army spokesperson Avichay Adraee posted a video on X showing desperate Palestinians, tormented by Israel's starvation tactic, overwhelming a UN warehouse.

In response, the Gaza Media Office said, "The Israeli occupation is spreading lies to cover up its engineered starvation policy targeting civilians, while it is the one that prevented international organisations from distributing aid to Palestinian families."

It said the warehouse belonged to the UN World Food Program (WFP); however, Israel rushed to fabricate a false narrative.

The office cited international organisations stating that the Israeli military had barred the WFP from distributing flour and food aid to needy families, ordering instead that aid be redirected exclusively to bakeries — a policy now referred to as "engineered starvation."

Israel has killed over 54,000 Palestinians, mostly women and children, so far in its carnage in besieged Gaza.

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Source: TRT