UN aid chief calls Gaza famine preventable, blames Israel's obstruction of aid
ReutersAug 22, 2025 9:00 AM
GENEVA, Aug 22 (Reuters) - The United Nations aid chief said on Friday that the famine that has struck part of Gaza was preventable, blaming the "systematic obstruction" of aid by Israel and demanding that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu let supplies in on a massive scale.
"It is a famine that we could have prevented if we had been allowed, yet food stacks up at borders because of systematic obstruction by Israel," U.N. Emergency Coordinator Tom Fletcher told reporters in Geneva, commenting on the release of a report by a global hunger monitor.
"Let us get food and other supplies in unimpeded and at the massive scale required. End the retribution," he added in comments directed at Netanyahu.
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