'We Need a Real Solution': Gazans Welcome Aid Plan but Fear It Will Not End Crisis

Intense international pressure for food and medical aid for Gaza as hunger crisis deepens

Prolonged and severe malnutrition is permanently damaging the health of children across Gaza. Doctors warn even if Israel lets in more food now, the damage to children's bodies can be irreversible.

'We need a real solution': Gazans welcome aid plan but fear it will not end crisis

Israel says aid convoys will be allowed into Gaza, after weeks of mounting pressure and warnings of starvation.

‘Just a smokescreen’: UNRWA chief says airdrops will not alleviate starvation in Gaza

The UNRWA commissioner-general says aid airdrops into besieged Gaza are ineffective and will not stop the Gaza famine, calling for the opening of land crossings into the coastal sliver.

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UNRWA chief says Gaza aid airdrops will not stop ’starvation’

The head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees said Saturday that planned airdrops of aid into the Gaza Strip would not solve severe food shortages caused by months of restrictions on the entry of supplies. "Airdrops will not reverse the deepening starvation. They are expensive, inefficient & can even kill starving civilians," UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini wrote on X, calling the wave of hunger affecting Gaza "manmade". An Israeli official …