‘Immediate possibility of starvation’ in Gaza, UN warns | First Thing

World Food Programme says Gaza faces massive food gap, as IDF claims to have uncovered a Hamas tunnel shaft at the Shifa hospital complex. Plus: forever chemical' waste, and Andre 3000's debut album

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The UN World Food Programme warned yesterday that the Gaza Strip now faced a massive" food gap and widespread hunger, and nearly the entire population of the Palestinian enclave was in desperate need of food assistance.

The news agency AFP is reporting that a large deployment of Israeli troops raided the Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank overnight. The IDF did not immediately comment.

Three Palestinians were killed in an Israeli drone strike on Jenin, the head of the Palestinian ambulance service told Reuters on Friday. It is unclear if this was part of the raid on the refugee camp.