Israel has opened a new border crossing to the heavily destroyed north of the Gaza Strip. A video released by the armed forces on Friday showed white jeeps and heavy trucks apparently rolling through the night on a sandy road.
The head of the US Agency for International Development (USAID) no longer doubts that there is already a famine in parts of Gaza. The official classification as a famine means that at least 20 percent of the population is affected by an extreme lack of food.. Aid organizations and eyewitnesses on the ground describe the situation in the Gaza. Strip as catastrophic, and not just in the north. Widespread destruction of homes and. infrastructure, the ongoing fighting, the general chaos and the lack of supplies are making life. ‘hell’ for the majority of the 2.2 million inhabitants, as Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock recently said. According to the Hamas-controlled health authority in the. Gaza Strip, 33,634 people have died since the war began on October 7.