UN suspends food delivery in Rafah because of shortages and fighting

Unrwa said that the Israeli military action has rendered food depots and distribution centers in eastern Rafah inaccessible.

The UN reports that the delivery of food has been halted in the southern Gazan city of Rafah because of a shortage of supplies and unrest.

The continuous Israeli military action against Hamas in eastern Rafah has rendered the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, Unrwa, and its distribution center and warehouse inaccessible.

Since the Israeli offensive started on May 6, an estimated 810,000 of the more over a million individuals seeking safety in Rafah had left.

Unrwa said that no medical supplies had been sent to its health centers in the previous ten days.

The announcement coincided with the US government's declaration that it did not think any of the 569 tons of food and other goods that had reached Gaza via a recently finished floating dock had been given to Palestinians by humanitarian organizations.

Deliveries of supplies were halted by the WFP on Saturday when hungry Palestinian mobs plundered several trucks carrying goods from the dock to a warehouse in the central town of Deir al-Balah.

Distribution has been put on hold as the UN plans other routes to avoid crowds, according to the WFP.

The biggest partly operational hospital in northern Gaza was allegedly targeted four times on Tuesday, the chief of the World Health Organization said, as fighting between Palestinian armed factions and Israeli troops rages in the neighboring Jabalia region.

According to medical staff at Kamal Adwan hospital in Beit Lahia, Israeli missiles hit the emergency ward, causing them to rush patients on hospital beds to a street outside. The Israeli military stated it was examining these allegations.

The WHO claimed that several employees, patients, and others who were with them were trapped inside the besieged al-Awda hospital in Jabalia since Sunday.