UN agency warns of “immediate possibility of starvation” in Gaza

The UN World Food Programme (WFP) has given a warning that the Gaza Strip now faces a “massive” food scarcity and widespread hunger. The agency said that the entire population in the area is in desperate need of food.

WFP executive director Cindy McCain on Thursday (November 16) said that food and water supplies were “practically non-existent” in Gaza, and that “civilians are facing the immediate possibility of starvation”.