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Last Updated: October 10, 2023, 23:29 IST
An Israeli soldier wears a mask as he looks on following an attack by Gazan militants on Kibbutz. (Reuters)
The Rome-based United Nations agency is already helping close to 200,000 people in the Palestinian territories, but has launched an emergency operation to provide critical food help for a total of 800,000
The World Food Programme (WFP) said Tuesday it was targeting food help for a further 600,000 people in Gaza and the West Bank following Israel’s war with Hamas.
The Rome-based United Nations agency is already helping close to 200,000 people in the Palestinian territories, but has launched an emergency operation to provide critical food help for a total of 800,000, a spokeswoman told AFP.
She did not specify how many of these people were in Gaza, which has been placed under total siege by Israel since Saturday’s assault by Hamas.
The WFP is appealing for $17.3 million in the next four weeks to address the “critical situation” in the Palestinian territories.
The agency also echoed a call by the World Health Organization (WHO) for a humanitarian corridor to provide aid to Gaza.
The WFP said that on Monday, working with UNRWA (the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine refugees), it had distributed ready-to-eat food to 73,000 people.
“Distributions are ongoing daily for displaced people in shelters in Gaza, amid concerns that the city is running out of critical resources like food, water, and electricity, with damaged infrastructure severely impeding both food production and distribution networks,” it said.
It is also beginning to distribute cash-based transfers to 164,000 people in Gaza and the West Bank, electronic vouchers which can be redeemed for food in local shops, it said — even while expressing fears that local supplies are running out.
(This story has not been edited by News18 staff and is published from a syndicated news agency feed – AFP)
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