Starvation: UN Warns As Aid Supplies To Gaza Are Halted Again

UN aid deliveries to Gaza were again halted on Friday, November 17, due to fuel shortages and a communications outage, exacerbating the starvation of thousands of homeless Palestinians as Israeli troops fought Hamas terrorists in the territory.

The World Food Programme (WFP) of the United Nations warned that populations risked the “immediate possibility of starvation” owing to a lack of food supply.

Despite worldwide appeals for a ceasefire or, at the very least, humanitarian pauses, the war between Israel and Hamas was about to enter its seventh week.

According to the Palestinian news agency WAFA, a number of Palestinians were killed and others were injured in an Israeli strike on a group of displaced people near the Gaza-Egypt border crossing.

According to Al Jazeera TV, nine individuals were murdered in the strike. According to Al Jazeera, an Israeli strike on a house in the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza killed at least 18 Palestinians.

Israel’s military, which has centred its assault on northern Gaza, said on Friday that its troops and warplanes were maintaining pressure.

They took control of an Islamic Jihad commander’s base overnight, according to the report, and also killed Hamas fighters inside a school where they discovered a big number of weaponry.

Earlier, Israel reported its troops discovered a Hamas tunnel shaft at Al Shifa Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip.

The hospital, which is overcrowded with patients and displaced people, has become a major source of concern around the world. According to Israel, Hamas has stockpiled weapons and ammunition and is holding captives in a network of tunnels beneath hospitals such as Shifa, using patients and those seeking refuge as human shields. This is denied by Hamas.
The conflict was sparked by a cross-border attack by Hamas terrorists on Oct. 7, which murdered around 1,200 Israelis, largely civilians, on the state’s worst day in its 75-year existence.

According to the Palestinian Health Ministry, more than 11,500 Palestinians, including at least 4,700 children, have been killed in Israel’s retaliatory military attack on Hamas-ruled Gaza, a toll that considerably exceeds similar bouts of conflict in recent years.