Half-million Gazans face ‘catastrophic’ levels of hunger, U.N. report says

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Half-million Gazans face ‘catastrophic’ levels of hunger, U.N. report says
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A flood of aid in the spring averted earlier famine warnings, but the aid operation has all but collapsed since Israel’s offensive in Rafah.

Jana Ayad, a malnourished Palestinian girl, rests on a bed as she receives treatment Saturday at the International Medical Corps field hospital in Deir al-Balah, southern Gaza Strip. The threat of famine in the Gaza Strip has been revived after Israel’s military operation in the southern city of Rafah disrupted aid deliveries, leaving more than 500,000 Palestinians on the brink of starvation, a U.N.-backed group of experts said Tuesday.

The report described how more than half of households have exchanged clothes for money to buy food. A third have resorted to selling trash from the streets. More than 20 percent of people surveyed have gone entire days and nights without eating.before the conflict began, as a years-long Israeli and Egyptian blockade took a heavy toll on the enclave’s economy.

and that “humans should never be used as human shields.” Miller called on the Israel Defense Forces to investigate and “hold people accountable.” The Israeli military said its forces were fired upon and exchanged fire during a raid, wounding a suspect and detaining him, Reuters

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