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TomDaisy

(1,969 posts)
Wed Oct 11, 2023, 11:24 PM Oct 2023

This is Gaza. - UN/World Food Programme




Families in Gaza cannot access food, water & essential supplies.

@WFP
has provided 137,000 people in
@UNRWA
shelters with ready-to-eat food & fresh bread, but need safe & unobstructed humanitarian access to reach more people in need.
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Food distributions are underway in #Gaza and the #WestBank in response to soaring needs after the escalation in conflict – which has seen almost 264,000 people displaced in Gaza to date.

WFP aims to provide a critical food lifeline to over 800,000 people: https://bit.ly/3ZOUpA0


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🔺Over 137,000 people are taking shelter in 83
@UNRWA
schools now turned shelters. Numbers are increasing as airstrikes continue.

🔺
@UNRWA
forced to close all 14 food distribution centres - as a result half a million people have stopped receiving vital food aid.

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Thank you World Food Programme. Half of the 2,000,000 population of Gaza are children.
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This is Gaza. - UN/World Food Programme (Original Post) TomDaisy Oct 2023 OP
Will they be able to bring any more through the blockade Big Blue Marble Oct 2023 #1
I see in one of the interviews the mans says they are running out TomDaisy Oct 2023 #2

TomDaisy

(1,969 posts)
2. I see in one of the interviews the mans says they are running out
Thu Oct 12, 2023, 12:04 AM
Oct 2023

of supplies. Not sure if any more coming in -- I'm not sure Egypt has the capacity to meet the need.

Also, on MSNBC earlier today a doctor in Gaza said he has been operating exclusively on children injured in the bombings and that he expects the complete collapse of the Palestinian hospital system within the week. No supplies.

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