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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Emma Graham-Harrison in Jerusalem and Julian Borger in Washington

Aid ‘still not reaching Gaza’, as top US official warns famine has started

Humanitarian aid packages are dropped from a plane over Gaza City.
Humanitarian aid packages are dropped from a plane on 11 April as Israeli attacks continue. Photograph: Dawoud Abo Alkas/Anadolu/Getty Images

A 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 was beginning to take hold in parts of the besieged coastal strip.

A key port has not been opened to aid shipments, and a new crossing into northern Gaza has officially opened but UN agencies are not yet allowed to use it, even though they provide the vast majority of food aid for the territory.

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