{"id":15337,"date":"2024-01-07T12:08:47","date_gmt":"2024-01-07T17:08:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/food-supply-in-gaza-deteriorating-blinken-says\/07\/01\/2024\/"},"modified":"2024-01-07T12:08:47","modified_gmt":"2024-01-07T17:08:47","slug":"food-supply-in-gaza-deteriorating-blinken-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/food-supply-in-gaza-deteriorating-blinken-says\/07\/01\/2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Food supply in Gaza &#8216;deteriorating&#8217;, Blinken says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The food supply for hundreds of thousands of people in the Gaza Strip has deteriorated, according to US Secretary of State Antony Blinken.<\/p>\n<p>The food situation for men, women and children is &#8220;very difficult&#8221; and &#8220;deteriorating,&#8221; Blinken said on Sunday in Amman after visiting a warehouse of the World Food Programme (WFP).<\/p>\n<p>Much of the food delivered is ready to eat because people can hardly or not at all prepare it under current conditions. &#8220;This is the only way to effectively get what people need right now,&#8221; Blinken added.<\/p>\n<p>Israel completely sealed off and attacked the Gaza Strip after the terrorist attack by the Islamist Hamas on October 7.<\/p>\n<p>This dramatically worsened the already poor supply situation of the approximately 2.2 million inhabitants. Almost everyone in the Gaza Strip is suffering from hunger or displacement.<\/p>\n<p>According to a UN study, around 577,000 people, or 26% of Gaza&#8217;s inhabitants, fall into the most severe category of hunger. In the rest of the world, 129,000 people are similarly threatened.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/food-supply-gaza-deteriorating-blinken-164335942.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The food supply for hundreds of thousands of people in the Gaza Strip has deteriorated, according to US Secretary of State Antony<br \/><button class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/food-supply-in-gaza-deteriorating-blinken-says\/07\/01\/2024\/\">Read More &rsaquo;<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15339,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15337"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}