All of Gaza’s 2.3 million inhabitants lack sufficient food and face malnutrition a month into Israel’s devastating siege of the Palestinian enclave, a World Food Programme official said, Reuters reports.

“Before October 7, 33 per cent of the population were food insecure,” said Kyung-nan Park, director of emergencies for the United Nations World Food Programme. “We can safely say that 100pc are food insecure at this moment.”

She said WFP needed $112 million to be able to reach 1.1 million people in Gaza in the next 90 days. “They are facing the risk of malnutrition,” she said.

Bottles of water are handed out as Palestinians families fleeing Gaza City and other parts of northern Gaza towards the southern areas, walk along a highway on November 9. — AFP
Bottles of water are handed out as Palestinians families fleeing Gaza City and other parts of northern Gaza towards the southern areas, walk along a highway on November 9. — AFP

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