In a statement, the institution denounced that “the expansion of military activity in Gaza is severely hampering food assistance operations and putting the lives of humanitarian workers at risk.”

As part of his strategy to put pressure on the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu imposed a total blockade against the coastal enclave on March 2.

Since then, the measure has prevented the entry of all vital goods into the territory, including food, medicines, fuel and tents for the hundreds of thousands of refugees.

In this regard, the WFP warned that “it has been unable, together with its partners, to bring new food supplies into Gaza for more than three weeks.”

Some 30,000 tons of food a month are needed to meet the basic needs of approximately 1.1 million people there, it said.

The commissioner-general of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, Philippe Lazzarini, made a similar statement.

He noted that hunger is increasing in Gaza, as well as the threat of disease.

Parents cannot find food for their children and patients have no medicine in Gaza, he warned.

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