The UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) announced on May 21 that it had been forced to suspend all food distribution in Gaza’s besieged southern city of Rafah, because it had no food left to distribute, and due to insecurity as Israel’s offensive there continued.
A distraught UNRWA Communications Officer Louise Wateridge said: “We desperately need a safe passage—not just for humanitarian supplies but also for humanitarian personnel.” UNRWA also announced that they had not received any medical supplies in the past ten days due to “closures/disruptions” at the Rafah and Kerem Shalom crossings into Gaza.
Cynically, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu went on CNN yesterday to respond to the International Criminal Court’s charge that there were “reasonable grounds to believe” that he was guilty of “starvation of civilians as a method of warfare as a war crime” and “extermination and/or murder… in the context of deaths caused by starvation, as a crime against humanity.”
