UNRWA: Palestinians in Gaza are being bombed and starved again

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) said on Saturday that Palestinians in Gaza are besieged, bombarded, and starved once again due to the Israeli closure of the Strip’s crossings for the seventh consecutive week.

UNRWA added in a statement that Palestinians in Gaza are besieged, bombarded, and starved, while food, medicine, fuel, and temporary shelter supplies are piling up at the Strip’s crossings.

It explained that Israel has been closing the Strip’s crossings for the seventh consecutive week, preventing the entry of “humanitarian aid, medical and commercial supplies, food, children’s vaccines, and fuel into Gaza.”

Palestinians in the Gaza Strip are facing a new wave of hunger since Israel’s closure of the crossings, at a time when they have still not recovered from the effects of the previous wave, which resulted from Israel’s policy of rationing food and relief aid into the Strip over the course of 19 months of genocide.