ALBAWABA—UNRWA head Philippe Lazzarini warned on Wednesday that the situation in the Gaza Strip is heading 'towards famine,' AFP reported.
Lazzarini also decried the food aid distribution plan led by the newly established Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), which is backed by the United States, after it lost control during its second day of operations, as it could not intake hundreds of thousands of Gazans.
"At one moment in the late afternoon, the volume of people at the SDS [secure distribution centre] was such that the GHF team fell back to allow a small number of Palestinians in Gaza to take aid safely and dissipate," the foundation explained in a statement.
Displaced Palestinians receive food packages from a US-backed foundation pledging to distribute humanitarian aid in western Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on May 27, 2025. (AFP)
"I believe it is a waste of resources and a distraction from atrocities. We already have an aid distribution system that is fit for purpose," Lazzarini revealed in Japan.
The United Nations confirmed that at least 47 people were injured during aid distribution in Gaza.
Yesterday, the UNRWA head met the Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba and posted on X: "We also spoke about the catastrophic humanitarian situation in Gaza, where half a million people face starvation. We stressed that the humanitarian imperative must guide our collective response & that lifting the siege must not be delayed any longer."
