The UN World Food Program (WFP) has run out of food in Gaza. “Today, WFP delivered its last remaining food stocks to hot meals kitchens in the Gaza Strip,” the agency said in a statement issued yesterday. “These kitchens are expected to fully run out of food in the coming days.” WFP noted that bakeries in Gaza already shut down on March 31 after running out of flour and cooking fuel. “The same week, WFP food parcels distributed to families—with two weeks of food rations—were exhausted,” the statement added. “WFP is also deeply concerned about the severe lack of safe water and fuel for cooking—forcing people to scavenge for items to burn to cook a meal.”
Food prices have skyrocketed 1,400% in Gaza since Israel broke the ceasefire on March 18 and imposed a total blockade, which has left 116,000 metric tons of humanitarian aid outside of Gaza.
The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights issued a similar statement on April 25 at the same time reporting on the devastation of the lives of 2.2 million Palestinians caused by Israel’s war of genocide. “Since the collapse of the ceasefire, and during the past week in particular, Israeli attacks on Palestinians have accelerated, claiming the lives of countless civilians and further risking the complete destruction of what little infrastructure remains,” it said. “The dire conditions for civilians have been further exacerbated by displacement orders and Israel’s renewed complete blockade of the Gaza Strip that has stopped the flow of life saving, critical assistance from reaching increasingly desperate civilians.”
“In parallel, rampant settler violence and operations conducted by Israeli security forces in the West Bank are continuing to kill or injure Palestinians and are resulting in the forced displacement of Palestinians from their homes or shelters in many areas,” it added.
The statement went on further that Israel’s persistent attacks on civilians and civilian infrastructure, combined with “Israel’s policy of deliberately blocking life-saving assistance from entering the Gaza Strip, these policies appear to be aimed at punishing the civilian population of Gaza and inflicting on them conditions of life increasingly incompatible with their continued existence as a group in Gaza.”
U.S. President Donald Trump was asked about the Gaza catastrophe on his April 25 flight to Rome to attend the funeral for Pope Francis, and whether he had raised the issue in his phone call with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu earlier in the week. “Gaza came up and I said, ‘We’ve got to be good to Gaza.’ Those people are suffering. We’ve got to be good to Gaza. We’re going to take care of them.” He added: “We’re taking care of it.”
Until now, U.S. policy under both Joe Biden and Donald Trump has turned a blind eye to the Israeli genocide being committed, and, in fact, enabled it with ongoing shipments of weapons to Israel.
