Nour Shawaf, a regional policy adviser at Oxfam, has described the situation in the Gaza Strip catastrophic, after the UN-backed report said there is already an imminent famine in northern Gaza and a risk of famine across the entire bombarded and besieged territory.

‘This is all man-made,’ she told Al Jazeera from Beirut. ‘This is all a result of the continued bombardment by Israel and displacement of Palestinians across the Strip, and the result of using starvation as a weapon of war.

‘As long as we do not see a ceasefire in place that would allow humanitarian operations to scale up to deliver aid into Gaza and northern Gaza specifically, with an exponential type of increase of this type of assistance, then we are going to be seeing a very catastrophic scenario unfolding in front of our eyes as the world watches,’ Shawaf said.

She added that Oxfam was looking into seven constraints to humanitarian access that Israel has deliberately put in place to ensure that humanitarian operations are blocked.

Source
: National News Agency – Lebanon