Mass starvation stalks Gaza
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The UN's humanitarian agency warns only a "trickle" of aid is getting into Gaza - Israel says 800 trucks are inside Gaza waiting for collection.
The peace talks were cut short just as 115 aid groups have warned of mass starvation in Gaza as Israel blames Hamas for the food shortages.
Prime Minister Mark Carney is calling for Israel’s control of aid distribution to be replaced amid reports of mass starvation in Gaza.
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The past few months have pushed Gaza to a new level of distress. The World Food Program, part of the United Nations, said this week that the crisis in Gaza had reached “astonishing levels of desperation, with a third of the population not eating for multiple days in a row.”
In the scramble for sustenance, Palestinians are gunned down for no reason, with no excuse.
This month, the hunger that has been building among Gaza’s more than 2 million Palestinians passed a tipping point into accelerating death, aid workers and health staff say. Not only children — usually the most vulnerable — are falling victim under Israel’s blockade since March, but also adults.
All week across the BBC we've been hearing from people in Gaza about their lives as food supplies are restricted leading to malnourishment and starvation.
American nurse Elidalis Burgos, who is volunteering at Nasser Medical Complex as part of an NGO delegation, is overcome with emotion as she described the conditions that she and her colleagues are working against in Gaza.
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