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The UN World Food Program (WFP) announced this morning that all bakeries it supports in the impoverished and war-devastated Gaza Strip were forced to shut down due to the continued Israeli closure of the crossings, depriving the Palestinians in Gaza of basic food and aid items.
“All 25 WFP-supported bakeries in Gaza have shut down due to lack of fuel and flour,” WFP said in a statement on X.
It also warned that its hot meal programme for people in Gaza will only “last two weeks maximum.”
“WFP will distribute its last food parcels in the next two days,” the UN organisation added.
On Tuesday, the UN dismissed Israeli claims that there is enough food in the Gaza Strip, calling the assertion “ridiculous” as humanitarian supplies run dangerously low.
“As far as the UN [is] concerned, that’s ridiculous. I mean, we are at the tail end of our supplies, of the UN, that came in through the humanitarian route,” spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said at a news conference.
Israel launched a surprise aerial bombing campaign on Gaza on 18 March killing more than 1,000 Palestinians and injuring over 2,000, shattering a January ceasefire and prisoner exchange agreement between Israel and the Palestinian resistance group Hamas.
Before the resumption of its genocide in Gaza, Israel also closed all crossings into Gaza in early March, preventing the entry of humanitarian aid and goods.
More than 50,300 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza in Israel’s military onslaught since October 2023, most of them women and children.
The International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants last November for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former Defence Minister Yoav Gallant for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza.
Israel also faces a genocide case at the International Court of Justice for its war on the enclave.
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