(5 Jun 2024)
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Khan Younis – 5 June 2024
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1. Various of tent camp for displaced people
STORYLINE:
Displaced Palestinians, forced to flee from Rafah to Khan Younis, face dire living conditions such as hunger, lack of drinking water and other basic humanitarian necessities.
United Nations agencies are warning that over 1 million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip could experience the highest level of starvation by the middle of next month if hostilities continue.
Israel has routinely launched airstrikes across Gaza since the start of the war and has carried out ground operations that have left much of the territory’s two largest cities, Gaza City and Khan Younis, in ruins.
The UN’s World Food Program and Food and Agriculture Organization said in a joint report Wednesday that hunger is worsening because of heavy restrictions on humanitarian access and the collapse of the local food system because of the nearly eight-month Israel-Hamas war.
The U.N. and international aid agencies for months have said not enough food or other humanitarian supplies are entering Gaza, and Israel faces mounting pressure from top ally the U.S. and others to let in more aid.
Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza has killed more than 36,000 Palestinians, according to the Health Ministry, which does not distinguish between combatants and civilians.
Israel launched the war in Gaza after Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack, in which militants stormed into southern Israel, killed some 1,200 people — mostly civilians — and abducted about 250.
Around 80 hostages captured on Oct. 7 are believed to still be alive in Gaza, alongside the remains of 43 others.
AP video by Abdel Kareem Hana
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