Need for food ‘desperate’ in Gaza as Israel blocks aid: WFP

The food security situation in Gaza is once again “on the brink of collapse”, according to Antoine Renard, the Palestine country director for the United Nations’ World Food Programme (WFP).

“Most of the families that I’ve met yesterday in Gaza City are telling me that they’re barely having one meal per day,” he said from al-Rashid Road in central Gaza’s Deir el-Balah.

Renard added that families are reporting that people are fainting from lack of food, and that the besieged enclave needs at least 100 trucks of aid entering per day to recover from the brink.

“We’re calling on all actors to make sure that the WFP can do its job in the Gaza Strip,” he said.