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FAMINE THREAT REMAINS
Israel’s siege has pushed many of Gaza’s 2.4 million people to the brink of famine.
US pressure has prompted Israel to facilitate more aid deliveries to Gaza, including through the reopened Erez crossing that leads directly into the hardest-hit north.
Food availability has improved “a little bit”, said the World Health Organization’s representative in the Palestinian territories, Rik Peeperkorn.
But he warned that the threat of famine had “absolutely not” gone away.
Five Israeli human rights groups that took Israel to court over restrictions on aid to war-torn Gaza said the state’s insistence that it has met its obligations was “incomprehensible”.
The government had told the Supreme Court that the steps it had taken went “above and beyond” its obligations under international law.
Gisha and four other Israeli non-profit organisations retorted that the shortages evident inside Gaza indicated “the respondents are not meeting their obligations, not to the required extent nor at the necessary speed”.
The US-based charity World Central Kitchen resumed operations this week, after suspending them in the immediate aftermath of Israeli drone strikes that killed seven of its staff as they unloaded aid in Gaza on Apr 1.
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