Series - Editorial Fellowship: Global Aid and Co-operation

Oxfam Canada calls again for ceasefire as 500,000 Palestinians face starvation due to Israel aid blockade

Author Shannon VanRaes
More than two-thirds of Gaza’s agricultural wells have been disabled by Israeli forces over the last 19 months.

Why It Matters

International organizations call on governments to allow them to provide the necessities of life and avert an even greater humanitarian cataclysm in Gaza. Without food and water, hundreds of thousands could die.

Nearly a quarter of a million Palestinians in Gaza are experiencing catastrophic food deprivation as defined by the FAO, putting them in phase five of the organization’s five-phase food security classification and at risk of death.

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