GAZA – On Friday, the UN-backed Famine Review Committee (FRC) issued a rare alert revealing that the number of aid shipments being let into Gaza is now lower than at any time since Israel’s war on the enclave began last year. According to UN reports, 80 percent of Gaza’s population now relies on humanitarian aid for their daily needs.

Um Mohammed, who lives in a makeshift tent in Deir al-Balah, says her family is struggling to survive. She and her family were forcibly displaced from Jabalia in northern Gaza when the war began over a year ago. “I mainly depend on the aid centre to feed my children, but now there is no aid getting into Gaza,” the mother of six told Al Jazeera. “I tend to use canned food and grains to prepare a meal for my family. The last time I ate meat was two months ago.”

In September, the UN said Israel blocked the entry of 83 percent of food aid into the Strip since the war began. “We used to have from 700 to 800 aid truck per day in September 2023,” Amjad Alshawwa, director of Palestinian NGO’s network, told Al Jazeera. “We now have such a severe humanitarian crisis… we have from 30 to 40 trucks a day maximum.” (Al Jazeera)…[+]