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UN to Use 'Humanitarian Pauses' to Try to Reach Gaza's Starving

This is Beirut, 2025-07-27 19:15 - Reading : 5 minute(s)

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The United Nations said it would try to reach as many starving people as possible in Gaza after Israel announced it would establish secure land routes for humanitarian convoys. The UN's World Food Program (WFP) said it had enough food in, or on its way to, the region to feed the 2.1 million people in the Gaza Strip for almost three ...

One in Three Gazans “Not Eating for Days,” Warns WFP

This is Beirut, 2025-07-25 18:25 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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Almost a third of people in Gaza are "not eating for days," the United Nations food aid agency told AFP on Friday, saying the crisis has reached "new and astonishing levels of desperation." The Rome-based World Food Programme had previously warned of a "critical risk of famine" in war-raged Gaza, over which international condemnation of Israel's ...

UN Raises Alarm as 36 Million Face Hunger in West and Central Africa

This is Beirut, 2025-05-09 16:05 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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The UN World Food Programme sounded the alarm on Friday over escalating hunger in West and Central Africa as needs reach "record levels." More than 36 million people are struggling to meet their food needs, a number that could rise to 52 million people during the lean season between harvests this summer, the agency said in a ...

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