{"id":11638,"date":"2025-08-27T23:57:27","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T23:57:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/?p=11638"},"modified":"2025-08-27T23:57:27","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T23:57:27","slug":"famine-in-gaza-due-to-restricted-and-compromised-aid-deliveries-un-official-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/?p=11638","title":{"rendered":"Famine in Gaza due to \u2018restricted and compromised\u2019 aid deliveries, UN official says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joyce Msuya, UN assistant secretary-general for humanitarian affairs and deputy emergency relief coordinator, told the Security Council that \u201cover half a million people currently face starvation, destitution and death\u201d in Gaza, Al Jazeera reports.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy the end of September, that number could exceed 640,000. Virtually no one in Gaza is untouched by hunger,\u201d Msuya said.<\/p>\n<p>She explained that the famine was the result of more than 22 months of \u201crestricted and compromised\u201d deliveries of desperately needed humanitarian aid, a weakened healthcare system, poor sanitation and hygiene, and a lack of adequate shelter.<\/p>\n<p>Despite an uptick in trucks entering the enclave, Msuya said, much more was needed to feed Gaza\u2019s people and all restrictions must be lifted.<\/p>\n<p>Msuya called on the council to \u201cimmediately ensure\u201d an end to the fighting in Gaza to stop the famine from spreading, release all captives and protect civilians and critical infrastructure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joyce Msuya, UN assistant secretary-general for humanitarian affairs and deputy emergency relief coordinator, told the Security Council that \u201cover half a million people currently face starvation, destitution and death\u201d in Gaza, Al Jazeera reports. \u201cBy the end of September, that number could exceed 640,000. Virtually no one in Gaza is untouched by hunger,\u201d Msuya said. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11639,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11638"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11640,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11638\/revisions\/11640"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}