{"id":7404,"date":"2025-03-26T07:42:49","date_gmt":"2025-03-26T07:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/?p=7404"},"modified":"2025-03-26T07:42:49","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T07:42:49","slug":"oxfam-raises-alarm-over-increasing-risk-of-famine-in-gaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/?p=7404","title":{"rendered":"Oxfam raises alarm over increasing risk of famine in Gaza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Oxfam charity has called on Israel to restore the ceasefire deal and lift its siege on Gaza, saying the total blockade is increasing famine risks for desperate civilians in the coastal enclave, Al Jazeera reports.<\/p>\n<p>It also said its operations in Gaza have been severely hampered by Israel\u2019s renewed military assault on the territory, including in vital areas such as food security and livelihood, as well as essential repair work to damaged water infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor the past 535 days, Israel has been systematically weaponising life-saving aid, inflicting collective punishment upon the population of Gaza,\u201d said Oxfam\u2019s policy lead for Palestine Bushra Khalidi.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe denial of food, water, fuel and electricity is a war crime and a crime against humanity. Many within the international community are enabling this by their silence, inaction and complicity,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Oxfam charity has called on Israel to restore the ceasefire deal and lift its siege on Gaza, saying the total blockade is increasing famine risks for desperate civilians in the coastal enclave, Al Jazeera reports. It also said its operations in Gaza have been severely hampered by Israel\u2019s renewed military assault on the territory, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7405,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7404","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\/7404","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=7404"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7406,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7404\/revisions\/7406"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}