A Palestinian woman holds bottles filled with water, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, Dec. 8, 2023. (Credit: Ibraheem Abu Mustafa/Reuters)
ROME — The World Food Programme (WFP) said it was becoming impossible to get supplies to hungry people in the Gaza Strip as Israel stepped up its attacks on targets there in its war with Hamas.
"With law and order breaking down, any meaningful humanitarian operation is impossible," the WFP's Deputy Executive Director Carl Skau said in a statement after a visit to the Palestinian enclave on Friday.
"With just a fraction of the needed food supplies coming in, a fatal absence of fuel, interruptions to communications systems and no security for our staff or for the people we serve at food distributions, we cannot do our job," he added.
The United Nations agency showed during a truce that collapsed last week that it was able to deliver if conditions allowed, and Skau, who is Swedish, called for a "humanitarian cease-fire."
"We have food on trucks, but we need more than one crossing. And once the trucks are inside, we need free and safe passage to reach Palestinians wherever they are," he added.
said it was becoming impossible to get supplies to hungry people
in the Gaza Strip as Israel stepped up its attacks on targets
there in its war with Hamas.
"With law and order breaking down, any meaningful
humanitarian operation is impossible," the WFP's Deputy
Executive Director Carl Skau said in a statement after a...