UN food agency pauses deliveries to the north of Gaza

Following riots in the distribution of food, the WFP is suspending its deliveries to the north of the Gaza Strip for the time being. Other aid organizations are also reporting increasing difficulties.

World Food Programme Halts Deliveries to Northern Gaza

The World Food Programme announced on Tuesday that it will be temporarily halting aid deliveries to northern Gaza, where hundreds of thousands of people depend on the organization’s assistance for lifesaving nutrition. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] The World Food Programme (WFP) said in a statement that it’s pausing deliveries because conditions were not being met to allow for the safe distribution of aid. On Sunday, an aid truck was surroun…

UN agency pauses Gaza food aid deliveries after looting and gunfire

World Food Programme reports ‘hunger and desperation’ and says Gaza is ‘hanging by a thread’Middle East crisis – live updatesA UN effort to deliver critical food aid to northern Gaza has been paused because of a breakdown in public order amid acute “hunger and desperation” across the battered territory.The UN’s World Food Programme was forced to suspend plans to send 10 convoys of food aid into northern Gaza this week after chaotic scenes over t…

Fear of famine worsens in Gaza after World Food Programme aid pause

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Israel blocking food and supplies: WFP halts deliveries in north over security concerns

Israel's actions causing starvation and famine in northern Gaza - trucks carrying life-saving aid are blocked from entering the Strip.

UN World Food Programme suspends aid amid chaos in northern Gaza