Aid ‘still not reaching Gaza’, as top US official warns famine has started
by Emma Graham-Harrison in Jerusalem and Julian Borge from World news | The Guardian on (#6M0XT)
Samantha Power becomes first US official to confirm famine, while aid workers decry continuing lack of help
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 is 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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