WHO chief warns about famine in Gaza Strip

World Health Organization (WHO) Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has warned about looming hunger in the Gaza Strip because of Israel’s continuing operation, Paralel.Az reports.

"Famine looms in Gaza amid ongoing bombardment," he wrote on his X (formerly known as Twitter) account. "Starvation and illness continue ravaging the population. Immediate, concerted action is needed now. This means: allowing and accelerating delivery of food and other nutrition sources, and medicines," protecting hospitals so that medics could take care of patients suffering from famine, illnesses and injuries.

He called for an immediate ceasefire and insisted that humanitarian organizations be given access to the Palestinian enclave.

Commissioner-General of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) Philippe Lazzarini said on March 24 that Israel would no longer let UNRWA humanitarian convoys the into the northern Gaza Strip. According to Lazzarini, "the Israeli Authorities informed the UN that they will no longer approve any UNRWA food convoys" to northern Gaza.