UN suspends food aid in northern Gaza, plagued by “chaos and violence”. The World Food Program had already suspended aid shipments three weeks earlier.
Deliveries had resumed, but the trucks had been “looted’ or targeted by fire. A total of 2.2 million people are threatened with famine in the Gaza Strip, according to the UN. The WFP warned on Monday that an alarming lack of food, rampant malnutrition and rapid spread of disease could lead to an "explosion" in the number of child deaths.