'Strong likelihood' famine imminent in north Gaza, say food security experts

The Straits Times11-09

LONDON/UNITED NATIONS - There is a "strong likelihood that famine is imminent in areas" of the northern Gaza Strip, a committee of global food security experts warned on Nov 8, as Israel pursues a ...

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He accused Hamas of hijacking the assistance.\nHamas has repeatedly denied Israeli allegations that it was stealing aid and says Israel is to blame for shortages.\n\"The daily average number of trucks entering Gaza in late October was about 58 per day,\" Jean-Martin Bauer, the UN World Food Programme's director of food security and nutrition analysis, told Reuters on Friday. \n\"We were getting about 200 a day in September and August, so that's really a big, big decline,\" he said. 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