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Israel allows more aid missions to go ahead, UN figures show
Nearly two-thirds of coordinated humanitarian missions in the Gaza Strip have been facilitated by Israeli authorities so far this month, the UN humanitarian agency, OCHA, has said.
This is an improvement from May, when just under half of aid missions went ahead smoothly, according to OCHA data.
However, in the north of the Gaza Strip, just under half of 86 coordinated humanitarian missions were facilitated by Israeli authorities from the beginning of June up until June 23, OCHA figures show.
In total, Israel has outright denied access to 38 humanitarian missions in both the north and the south of Gaza in June so far, while other missions were impeded or cancelled due to logistical, operational or security reasons, OCHA added.
At least 495,000 Palestinians facing ‘catastrophic food insecurity’
That amounts to one in five Palestinians in the enclave suffering from the highest level of malnutrition, according to the UN’s hunger monitoring system, the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC).
At the same time, according to the IPC’s latest report, more than one in five households go entire days without eating.
“The humanitarian space in the Gaza Strip continues to shrink and the ability to safely deliver assistance to populations is dwindling. The recent trajectory is negative and highly unstable,” the IPC update said.
More than half of the population of #Gaza doesn’t have any food stored, with over 20% of people going entire days without eating, according to @theIPCinfo.
The risk of famine remains at least as high as at any time during the past few months of war.https://t.co/VDhsKepLiv https://t.co/ZRG5uK2hBh pic.twitter.com/PWwnaf1fDW
— UNRWA (@UNRWA) June 25, 2024
