News - Middle East: The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has warned that two million people in Gaza are are suffering from “acute hunger,” as Israel prevents humanitarian missions from reaching the war-wracked besieged strip.

“2M people are facing acute hunger across Gaza,” the WFP head, Cindy McCain, said in post on social media platform X on Monday.

She noted that only one-third of trucks carrying WFP’s food had managed to enter Gaza last month.

“North Gaza was hit hardest – just two trucks reached thousands of hungry people,” she said.

North Gaza has been under an all-out siege for nearly two months and people there have been ordered to evacuate.

However, the Palestinians trying to go south have been targeted by Israeli snipers and drones.

McCain called for “safe, unfettered access at scale” to save lives and avert famine.

Israel launched a genocidal war on Gaza on October 7, 2023 after the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas waged the surprise Operation Al-Aqsa Flood against the occupying entity in response to the Israeli regime's decades-long campaign of bloodletting and devastation against Palestinians.

The regime’s bloody onslaught on Gaza has so far killed at least 45,028 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and injured more than 106,962 others. Thousands more are also missing and presumed dead under rubble.

The Israeli military has been constructing infrastructure and large facilities in Gaza as it plans to remain in the besieged Palestinian territory at least until the end of 2025, according to media reports.

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