Israeli Attacks in Gaza are blocking Gaza food aid deliveries: UN food agency

Escalating Israeli operation in Rafa has made it near-impossible for humanitarians to deliver desperately needed food aid, the deputy chief of the UN World Food Program, Carl Skau, said Friday at the end of a two-day mission to the enclave.

“Travelling through Gaza City to Jabalia, the destruction is unbelievable. In the North of Gaza, I didn’t see one single building intact and there was constant shelling with drones buzzing overhead,” Skau, WFP’s Deputy Executive Director, said.

“The people here are traumatized and exhausted. One woman who had lost her husband told me this war has been going on for 250 days – but to her it felt like 250 years.”

“With lawlessness born out of desperation inside Gaza now hampering deliveries from the Kerem Shalom crossing, and active conflict spreading in the southern and middle areas, WFP staff are finding it close to impossible to deliver sufficient aid to meet the growing needs".