The World Food Programme will run out of supplies to provide food to the hundreds of thousands of people in north Gaza in a week and a half if Israel does not immediately allow a sharp increase in aid deliveries, its director in the Palestinian territories has warned.
The already catastrophic conditions in northern Gaza have deteriorated rapidly in recent days, as Israel launched a massive new offensive in the area and prevented the UN from providing any aid to the north for two weeks, according to the head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees.
Even before these moves, a