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Published 09 Nov, 2023 11:10pm

Gaza population lacks food, faces malnutrition: UN food programme official

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.

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