'Far Too Late': Palestinians Despair After UN Declares Famine In Gaza

Fuente: International Business Times

The UN officially declared a famine in Gaza on Friday, blaming the 'systematic obstruction' of aid by Israel AFP Desperate Palestinians clutching pots and plastic buckets scrambled for rice at a charity kitchen in Gaza City on Saturday, a day after the United Nations declared a famine in the war-battered territory. AFP footage from Gaza's largest city, which Israel plans to seize as part of an expanded military offensive, showed women and young children among the chaotic jostle of dozens clamouring and shouting for food. One young boy used his hands to scrape a few leftover grains from the inside of a cooking vat.