Food in Gaza is currently still available but the closure of crossings into the strip may soon cause a dearth of commodities, including food, amid military escalation, said the United Nations’ World Food Programme on Monday (May 17).
Fresh violence broke out at the end of Ramadan on May 9 when Israeli forces, armed with a court order, started throwing out Palestinian families from the Sheikh Jarrah and Silwan neighbourhoods. The violence on the ground escalated to become airstrikes.
More than 220 people have died in Gaza and the West Bank, and ten in Israel, according to the U.N. on Tuesday.
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