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‘Starvation and disease’ stalk Gaza as fuel shortages block aid: Agencies

UN and Red Crescent workers prepare aid for distribution to Palestinians at a UNRWA warehouse in Deir el-Balah, Gaza Strip [File: Hassan Eslaiah/AP]

Gaza faces the threat of starvation and disease after aid deliveries were halted by a lack of fuel and a communications blackout, humanitarian agencies have warned.

Aid deliveries into the enclave have been suspended again as Israel continues to restrict fuel supplies. The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) said on Friday that civilians faced the “immediate possibility of starvation”. The World Health Organization warned that disease is spreading rapidly.

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