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WHO chief warns the ‘future of a generation in peril’ as Gaza famine looms

Palestinians wait to receive food cooked by a charity kitchen in Gaza's Rafah amid shortages of food supplies [Ibraheem Abu Mustafa/Reuters]

The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) has said that only the expansion of land crossings for aid deliveries into Gaza could help prevent famine in the densely populated Palestinian enclave.

“Recent efforts to deliver food by air and sea are welcome, but only the expansion of land crossings will enable large scale deliveries to prevent famine,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Thursday.

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