UN humanitarian chief says Gaza famine ‘openly promoted’ by Israel – Middle East Monitor

The UN’s top humanitarian official on Friday described the famine declared in the Gaza Governorate of Gaza Strip as a “predictable and preventable” catastrophe deliberately fueled by the obstruction of aid by Israel, Anadolu reports.

“It is a famine that we could have prevented if we had been allowed. Yet, food stacks up at borders because of systematic obstruction by Israel. It is a famine within a few hundred meters of food in a fertile land,” Tom…