Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney urged Israel to allow the World Food Programme (WFP) to work in Gaza, saying food must not be used as a ‘political tool’, hours after the UN agency ran out of stocks due to a sustained Israeli blockade on supplies, Reuters reports.

“The UN World Food Programme just announced that its food stocks in Gaza have run out because of the Israeli Government’s blockade, food cannot be used as a political tool,” Carney said on X.

The UN agency said no humanitarian or commercial supplies had entered Gaza for more than seven weeks because all main border crossing points were closed, the longest closure the Gaza Strip had ever faced.

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