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Iqra Farooq
BBC World Service As we reported earlier, multiple aid organisations, including the UN in recent hours, have said that they will be pausing operations in Gaza after an attack on a charity convoy killed seven aid workers.
We've been hearing from Palestinian aid workers and getting their reaction to the seven World Central Kitchen staff who were killed in Gaza. This includes the World Central Kitchen, which had 68 kitchens across the enclave, along with the American Near East Refugee Aid (ANERA) and Project Hope, which provides healthcare aid.
Naser Qadous is Palestinian and works for humanitarian organisation Anera. He knew Damian Sobol and Zomi Frankcom, two of the aid workers who were killed. These announcements have sparked increasing concern about the disruption of aid in Gaza, which is on the brink of a famine.
Naser tells the BBC World Service’s OS programme that “Zomi Frankcom was energetic, always smiling and very friendly and helpful. She was so motivated to help people and had a special character". Half the population - about 1.1m people - are starving, according to the IPC classification. Before April, the UN's worst-case scenario estimated that the entire population will be in famine by July 2024.
Naser is currently working in Ramallah in the West Bank, where he says distributing aid is difficult because after 7 October, most of the roads are closed. Gaza has the "highest share of people facing high levels of acute food insecurity that the IPC initiative has ever classified for any given area or country," the UN has said.
“Ramallah is not safe too. We’re 100 kilometres from projects in Jenin – it takes five hours now and used to take an hour and a half to get there,” he says. Its most senior human rights official, Volker Türk, told the BBC that Israel bore significant blame for the crisis in Gaza, and there was a "plausible" case that it was using starvation as a weapon of war.
Israel has vehemently denied this.
Read our full article about when a famine is declared here
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