300,000 Palestinians on the Brink of Famine: UNWRA
On Thursday, Philippe Lazzarini, the commissioner of the United Nations Palestinian Refugee Agency (UNRWA), warned that at least 300,000 people in the northern Gaza Strip are on the brink of famine as a result of Israel's siege against the Palestinian territory.
Currently, the survival of Palestinians depends on the help that United Nations agencies and international cooperation can offer them.
Since January 23, however, the Israeli army has not allowed UNRWA to deliver aid and food to the north of the Palestinian territory, Lazzarini denounced, adding that "since the beginning of the year, half of UNRWA's requests for relief missions aid to the north were rejected.