Denying UN aid to north Gaza 'will send children to graves', aid agency warns

Israel's decision on Sunday to prevent Unrwa food aid from reaching the northern Gaza Strip will "accelerate the risk of famine and send already starving children to their graves," aid agency Save the Children has warned. 

“Children are already dying from starvation and disease at the highest pace the world has ever seen, since records began," Xavier Joubert, country director for Save the Children in the occupied Palestinian territory, said. 

“Further restricting already drip-fed aid into northern Gaza is tantamount to tightening the noose. This announcement shows how funding cuts to the UN agency on which Palestinians and we as humanitarian organisations depend have further emboldened the weaponisation of aid.

"This must be overturned with robust and immediate diplomacy from the international community, as is their legal obligation. International action cannot take longer to deliver than the mere days children have. Their lives depend on it."