The World Food Programme said very little food assistance has made it beyond southern Gaza since the start of the conflict and that the risk of pockets of famine in the Palestinian enclave remained. Israel’s offensive has displaced most of Gaza’s 2.3 million population and caused acute shortages of food, water and medical supplies. At least 25,295 people in Gaza have been killed, according to Palestinian authorities, with thousands more feared buried under the rubble of a coastal enclave largely laid to waste.
