The EU Foreign Affairs Ministers called on Israel, on Monday 18 March, to guarantee “unhindered humanitarian access”, as food deliveries by land are still subject to Israeli inspections at the main access point: the Rafah border crossing.
At the same time, the United Nations warned that a record 1.1 million Gazans – “the highest number ever recorded” – were facing hunger, and declared that, without increased access to humanitarian aid, famine was “imminent”, particularly...