Liberal leader Mark Carney urged Israel to allow the World Food Program to work in Gaza, saying that food should not be used as a “political tool”, hours after the UN agency was left without actions due to an Israeli block sustained in supplies.
The World Food Program (WFP) said Friday that it had delivered its latest remaining supplies to kitchens that provide hot meals in Gaza and that the facilities were expected to be left without food in the next few days.
“The UN World Food Program has just announced that its food stocks in Gaza have been exhausted due to the blockade of the Israeli government: food cannot be used as a political tool,” said Carney in X.
The UN Agency said that no humanitarian or commercial supply had entered Gaza for more than seven weeks because all the main border crossing points were closed, the longest closure that the Gaza Strip had faced.
“Palestinian civilians should not bear the consequences of Hamas terrorist crimes,” Carney wrote in the publication of social networks. “The World Food Program should be allowed to resume its work that saves lives.”
Israel has previously denied that Gaza face a hunger crisis. The army accuses Hamas militants who run Gaza of exploiting the aid, what Hamas denies, and says that he must maintain all supplies to prevent combatants from obtaining it.
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The Gaza government media office said Friday that the famine was becoming a reality in the enclave of 2.3 million people.
Since the top of January fired on March 18, Israeli attacks have killed more than 1,900 Palestinians, many of them civilians, according to health authorities in Gaza, and hundreds of thousands have been displaced when Israel seized what he calls a damping area.
An attack led by Hamas against Israel on October 7, 2023, killed 1,200 people, with 251 hostages were taken to Gaza, according to Israeli counts. Since then, more than 51,300 Palestinians have been killed in the Israeli offensive in Gaza, according to health officials.
In its publication in X, Carney said that Canada had recently committed almost $ 100 million to support the UN and other international partners in providing food and humanitarian aid.
“We will continue working with our allies to a high permanent fire and the immediate return of all hostages,” he wrote.
Carney’s comments occur when the president of the United States, Donald Trump, said Friday that he pushed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to allow food and medicine in the Gaza Strip.
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