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People gather as a C-130 Hercules military transport aircraft drops humanitarian aid on the northern Gaza Strip on July 27, 2025. Bashar Taleb, AFP

People gather as a C-130 Hercules military transport aircraft drops humanitarian aid on the northern Gaza Strip on July 27, 2025. Two Jordanian and one Emirati plane on dropped 25 tonnes of humanitarian aid over the Gaza Strip, Jordanian state television reported on July 27. (Photo by BASHAR TALEB / AFP)

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GAZA

Agence France-Presse

<div><span class="fr-img-caption fr-fic fr-dib" style="width:960px"><span class="fr-img-wrap"><img src="https://od2-image-api.abs-cbn.com/prod/editorImage/1753626064723AFP__20250727__67YH4MM__v2__MidRes__TopshotPalestinianIsraelJordanUaeConflictGazaAid.jpg" style="width:960px" class="fr-fic fr-dib" alt="People gather as a C-130 Hercules military transport aircraft drops humanitarian aid on the northern Gaza Strip on July 27, 2025. Bashar Taleb, AFP"/><span class="fr-inner" style="text-align:left">People gather as a C-130 Hercules military transport aircraft drops humanitarian aid on the northern Gaza Strip on July 27, 2025. <em>Bashar Taleb, AFP</em></span></span></span></div><p>GENEVA, Switzerland -- The United Nations said it would try to reach as many starving people as possible in Gaza after Israel announced it would establish secure land routes for humanitarian convoys.</p><p>The UN&#x27;s World Food Programme (WFP) said it had enough food in, or on its way to, the region to feed the 2.1 million people in the Gaza Strip for almost three months.</p><p>UN emergency relief coordinator Tom Fletcher said on X he welcomed the announcement of &quot;humanitarian pauses&quot;.</p><p>&quot;In contact with our teams on the ground who will do all we can to reach as many starving people as we can in this window,&quot; he said.</p><p>WFP said the pauses and corridors should allow emergency food to be safely delivered.</p><p>&quot;Food aid is the only real way for most people inside Gaza to eat,&quot; it said in a statement.</p><p>It said a third of the population had not been eating for days, and 470,000 people in Gaza &quot;are enduring famine-like conditions&quot; that were leading to deaths.</p><p>WFP said more than 62,000 tons of food assistance was needed monthly to cover the entire Gaza population of two million.</p><p>The agency noted that, on top of Sunday&#x27;s &quot;pause&quot; announcement, Israel had pledged to allow more trucks to enter Gaza with quicker clearances along with &quot;assurances of no armed forces or shootings near convoys&quot;.</p><p>&quot;Together, we hope these measures will allow for a surge in urgently needed food assistance to reach hungry people without further delays,&quot; it said.</p><div><a class="fr-green fr-strong" href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/news/world/2025/7/27/israel-declares-gaza-fighting-pause-amid-deepening-hunger-crisis-1601">READ: Israel declares Gaza fighting pause amid deepening hunger crisis</a></div><div><br/></div><div><strong>- &#x27;Dystopian landscape&#x27; -</strong></div><div><script data-wid="auto" type="text/javascript" src="https://content.viralize.tv/display/?zid=AAFz8gWM8iRADsJr&amp;cid=ABdCCFkTIkg-NpyN"></script></div><p>UN rights chief Volker Turk said Israel, as the occupying power in Gaza, was obliged to ensure sufficient food was provided to the population.</p><p>&quot;Children are starving and dying in front of our eyes. Gaza is a dystopian landscape of deadly attacks and total destruction,&quot; he said in a statement.</p><p>He criticized a US- and Israel-backed outfit, called the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), that in late May began distributing foodstuffs when UN-organized efforts were blocked.</p><p>Turk said the GHF&#x27;s &quot;chaotic, militarized distribution sites were &quot;failing utterly to deliver humanitarian aid at the scope and scale needed&quot;.</p><p>His office says Israeli forces have killed more than 1,000 Palestinians trying to get food aid in Gaza since the GHF started operations -- nearly three-quarters of them in the vicinity of GHF sites.</p><div><a class="fr-green fr-strong" href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/news/world/2025/7/23/israel-denies-gaza-mass-starvation-accusations-0627">READ: Israel denies Gaza &#x27;mass starvation&#x27; accusations</a></div><div><a class="fr-green fr-strong" href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/news/world/2025/7/27/israeli-troops-board-gaza-bound-activist-boat-0913">READ: Israeli troops board Gaza-bound activist boat</a></div><div><br/></div><div><strong>- &#x27;Starvation crisis&#x27; -</strong></div><p>&quot;The starvation of people in Gaza must end now,&quot; UN refugees chief Filippo Grandi said on X.</p><p>&quot;Standing with UN and NGO colleagues ready to deliver desperately-needed, lifesaving aid to hundreds of thousands at risk of death.&quot;</p><p>Fletcher&#x27;s UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) warned Friday that conditions on the ground in Gaza were &quot;already catastrophic&quot; and deteriorating.</p><p>&quot;The starvation crisis is deepening,&quot; it said.</p><p>OCHA said UN teams were in place to ramp up deliveries into the Palestinian territory as soon as they were permitted to do so.</p><p>&quot;If Israel opens the crossings, lets fuel and equipment in, and allows humanitarian staff to operate safely, the UN will accelerate the delivery of food aid, health services, clean water and waste management, nutrition supplies, and shelter materials,&quot; it said.</p><div><strong>© Agence France-Presse</strong></div>

<p>The United Nations said it would try to reach as many starving people as possible in Gaza after Israel announced it would establish secure land routes for humanitarian convoys.</p>

The United Nations said it would try to reach as many starving people as possible in Gaza after Israel announced it would establish secure land routes for humanitarian convoys.

UN to use 'humanitarian pauses' to try to reach Gaza's starving

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UN to use 'humanitarian pauses' to try to reach Gaza's starving

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Robin Millard

Published July 27, 2025 11:15 PM PHT

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