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UN reports Gaza receiving lowest levels of international aid in months

UN deputy spokesperson Farhan Haq stated in a UN briefing Friday that “aid entering Gaza is at its lowest level in months.” “No one has received food parcels in this month due to constrained access of aid supplies,” the spokesperson continued.

The UN reported that bakeries are shutting all around the Palestinian-occupied territory in Gaza as bakers cannot secure wheat flour, and World Food Program kitchens have been forced to shut down due to the war. Haq nonetheless said that international organizations are doing their best to maintain humanitarian aid in Gaza. Specifically, the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) is “distributing bread, ready-to-eat or cooked meals, as well as flour, in and beyond designated shelters.” 

Haq’s statement was made a month after a UN report on the right to food by Michael Fakhri, who declared that Palestinians are starving due to a campaign by Israel, was released. Israel employs “blockades, water deprivation, food system destruction and the general destruction of civil infrastructure” as methods of enforcing starvation, according to Fakhri. He said this reflects Israel’s “fundamental abandonment of its human rights obligations,” and that starvation is being used as a tool of “genocide, extermination, and torture.”

There have also been reports in the last few days from UN special rapporteurs that international order is breaking down in the face of “atrocities” committed in Gaza. The International Court of Justice’s provisional measures to prevent genocide in Gaza and the court’s decision that Israel’s occupation of Gaza is unlawful have yet to be implemented, according to the report. The report called for international aid and action to be taken against Israel.

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