The UN World Food Program (WFP) has temporarily suspended food deliveries to the north of the Gaza Strip. Deliveries will only resume when conditions exist for safer distribution, the PMA announced yesterday. The decision was not easy for those responsible. “However, safety must be guaranteed for the delivery of food and for the people receiving it.”
After a three-week pause, WFP resumed deliveries north of the isolated coastal strip on Sunday. Since then, however, there have been chaotic scenes and riots during the food distribution, as WFP further announced. Shots were fired and a truck driver was attacked and injured.
The PMA says it is trying to resume deliveries as quickly as possible. The situation on the ground is getting worse and more people are at risk of dying from hunger. The Gaza Strip is hanging on by a thread.
WHO takes patients out of hospital
Meanwhile, the World Health Organization (WHO) removed 18 seriously ill patients from Nasser Hospital, in Khan Yunis, in the Gaza Strip, in a second rescue operation. 14 had already been taken to other hospitals, including two children.
There is no electricity or running water in the hospital, the spokesperson said. Patients are left in the hallways in the dark. The 15-person team is trying to keep the remaining 130 patients alive.
Israeli government spokesman Eilon Levi wrote that the Israeli army allowed the delivery of 24,500 liters of fuel to keep the hospital running. We don't expect a thank you.
Israeli special forces entered the hospital a few days ago. According to the army, the operation was based on intelligence that Islamist Hamas operated from the clinic.