Preventing malnutrition deaths goes beyond basic food delivers: WFP official
Speaking to Al Jazeera, UN World Food Programme official Skau also warned that preventing deaths from famine and acute malnutrition goes beyond just delivering basic food supplies, as is the UN agency’s purview.
“It’s a broader set of needs in terms of having a diversified nutritional intake of food, but also to have access to water and to basic healthcare,” he said. “Often when children die of hunger-related reasons, it’s because they have been sick and have been also malnourished at the same time as not having access to water,” he said.
He said it is important to make a “strong push for water and sanitation” across the enclave. “Although for WFP, that’s not our line of work, we’re still making a strong push for water and sanitation, because that’s really where we see some critical needs now, both in the north, but not least among these displaced people in the south,” he said.
Nearly 65% of Gaza’s roads damaged: UN Satellite Centre
UNOSAT [the UN Satellite Centre] has identified about 1,100km [700 miles] of destroyed roads, 350km [200 miles] of severely affected roads and 1,470km [900 miles] of moderately affected roads, the UN agency says on X. UNOSAT said it used satellite imagery in this assessment.
US aid pier to be removed again from Gaza shore: US media
The pier will again be moved to Ashdod, Israel, a Defense Department official told several US media outlets, citing high tides and rough seas in the coming days.
The relocation is the third time within a month that operations at the pier have been stopped. Meanwhile, aid that has been delivered in recent days has been held up at facilities near the pier after the UN paused deliveries last week, citing security concerns.
Aid deliveries from the US constructed pier began in mid-May but were halted by the end of that month when parts of the structure became unmoored during rough seas.
Officials have said more than 3,500 tonnes of aid have so far been delivered via the pier although the deliveries often face delays and other obstacles within Gaza.
