Starvation stalks Gaza amid aid shortage

It’s 3pm (13:00 GMT) in the occupied Palestinian territories and Israel.

Here are some of the main developments:

• Reports in Israeli media state that negotiators will travel to Doha in the coming days to continue talks on a captive release and truce deal.
• Three Palestinians were killed by Israeli shelling in the Sabra neighbourhood of Gaza City.
• Palestinians are also reported to have been killed in Khan Younis and Beit Lahiya in the latest round of Israeli attacks.
• Two Hezbollah members were killed in an Israeli air raid at the Syria-Lebanon border, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
• Fifteen Palestinians were arrested overnight in the occupied West Bank.
• A group of illegal Israeli settlers stormed the Bedouin community of Arab al-Malehat, located northwest of Jericho in the occupied West Bank.
• Iran has condemned the latest US and UK strikes on Houthi positions in Yemen, saying they violated the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Arab country.
• Multiple air raid sirens sounded across northern Israel on Sunday morning.
  

  Enough food is waiting across Gaza’s borders to feed entire population: UN official

  Samer Abdeljaber, the World Food Programme’s (WFP’s) director for emergencies, says there is enough food stocked up across Gaza’s borders to feed the entire population, but it cannot safely reach the war-torn population due to the ongoing violence and extensive security checks.

  “We have enough food across the borders, even from Jordan and Egypt, to be able to support 2.2 million people,” said Abdeljaber. “But we need to make sure we have the right access to Gaza from different crossings so that we can actually reach the people – whether they are in the north or the south or in the central areas.”

  He noted that the WFP hoped to specifically resume operations in the north of Gaza, where it has had to suspend work due to the unsafe conditions but where there are “lots of people in need”.

  “Safe routes is one of our requirements to continue assistance to the north and that can only be guaranteed if that is a speedy process,” Abdeljaber said. “Delays at the checkpoints are making it impossible for us to reach deeper into the north.”

  His comments come amid reports that people in Gaza, particularly in the north, have been facing starvation as Israel has continued relentless bombardment and blocked delivery of much-needed humanitarian aid.