Samantha Power becomes first US official to confirm famine, while aid workers decry continuing lack of help
- ‘Man-made starvation’: the obstacles to Gaza aid deliveries – visual guide
A promised surge in aid into Gaza that Benjamin Netanyahu promised Joe Biden a week ago has so far failed to materialise, aid workers say, as the US aid chief confirmed that famine is beginning to take hold in parts of the besieged coastal strip.
The increase in the number of truck crossing into Gaza claimed by Israel conflicts with UN records and already appears to be faltering.
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