UN: Gaza is the hungriest place on earth

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) described the Gaza Strip as "the hungriest place on earth," stating that the United Nations is prepared to deliver aid to the Strip "immediately and on a large scale."

This came in an interview with UN News on Wednesday by OCHA spokesperson Jens Laerke, who said that the United Nations has approximately 180,000 mobile pallets of food and other life-saving aid ready to enter Gaza.

"Donors around the world have already paid for the supplies, they have been cleared and approved, and they are ready to go, and we can bring aid (into Gaza) immediately on a large scale," he added.

Larke described the Gaza Strip as "the hungriest place on earth," noting that "time is running out very quickly, and lives are being lost every hour" in the Strip.

He explained that "the United Nations has a successful plan, as was evident during the ceasefire when tens of thousands of trucks entered the Strip and delivered aid to every person."

By deliberately starving the population, paving the way for forced displacement, according to the United Nations, Israel has pushed 2.4 million Palestinians to the brink of famine by closing the Gaza Strip's crossings to humanitarian aid, particularly food, since March 2.

Tel Aviv has excluded the United Nations and international relief organizations, and has tasked the Israeli-American Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, which is rejected by the UN, with distributing extremely scarce aid in the southern Gaza Strip, in order to force Palestinians to evacuate the north and empty it.

But the Israeli plan failed under the weight of famine, after desperate Palestinian crowds stormed an aid distribution center on Tuesday. The Israeli army opened fire on them, wounding several, according to the Gaza media office, which attributed the chaos to "the company's own mismanagement."

Since October 7, 2023, Israel has been waging genocide in Gaza, including killing, starvation, destruction, and forced displacement, ignoring all international calls and orders from the International Court of Justice to halt it.