A group of Democratic senators on Sunday penned a letter expressing “grave concerns” about the Trump administration’s approach to food aid in the war-torn Gaza Strip, part of a growing chorus of voices in the party speaking up about a humanitarian crisis in the beleaguered enclave.
A number of reports in recent days have revealed the extent of mass hunger in Gaza as Israel continues to wage its brutal war against the militant group Hamas.
One in five children in Gaza City is malnourished, Philippe Lazzarini, Commissioner-General for the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), said last week, while the World Health Organization has confirmed that at least 100 people have already died from starvation. Twenty-one of those were children under the age of 5.