Time running out, Gaza on brink of full-scale famine: UN
"We need to flood Gaza with large-scale food aid, immediately and without obstruction, and keep it flowing each and every day to prevent mass starvation," the World Food Programme's (WFP) executive director, Cindy McCain, said in a joint statement with UNICEF and the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO).
The director of Al-Shifa Medical Complex has said that Gaza has already entered the third stage of famine. "Malnutrition is claiming the lives of our patients despite our efforts to save them," Dr Mohammed Abu Salmiya told Al Jazeera.
A boy strokes the neck of a donkey as they stand amidst rubble following overnight Israeli bombardment in Gaza on 2 July 2 (AFP)
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