Oxfam reaction to IPC Report on Gaza: Majority still facing acute food insecurity

Responding to today’s Integrated Food Security Classification (IPC) report, Oxfam’s Marta Valdes García, Humanitarian Director, said:  

“There remains appalling and preventable levels of hunger in Gaza. Israel is allowing far too little aid to enter even as it continues to actively block aid requests from dozens of well-established humanitarian agencies. Oxfam alone has $2.5m worth of aid including 4000 food parcels, sitting in warehouses just across the border. Israeli authorities refuse it all. 

“With 1.6 million people found to be facing acute food insecurity, including 100,000 in Catastrophe (IPC level 5), we are incredibly concerned that winter is already bringing flooding and more misery to thousands of hungry people with little or no money, who are now exposed in terrible living conditions. Israel’’s control and ongoing illegal blockade has created a humanitarian response that is restricted, unpredictable and totally inadequate to the human crisis at hand.”