A senior United Nations official has said that supplies of food to southern Gaza are at risk after Israel extended its military operations and those displaced by the offensive there face a public health crisis, Reuters reports.

While hunger and the risk of famine have been most acute in northern Gaza in recent months, the situation is now deteriorating in the south, said Carl Skau, deputy director of the UN World Food Programme.

“We had stocked up before the operation in Rafah so that we had put food into the hands of people, but that’s beginning to run out and we don’t have the same access that we need, that we used to have,” Skau said after a two-day trip to Gaza.

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