Conflict & Cuisine: UN Warns Then Retracts on Gaza Starvation

Nineteen months of carnage: How Gaza was reduced to rubble and starvation

Gaza is on the brink of famine after a three-month blockade on supplies, the UN warns. Chief international correspondent Bel Trew looks at how the Palestinians got to this point

Bel Trew: How Gaza was reduced to rubble and carnage as world watched

Amid an apocalyptic humanitarian crisis in Gaza and mounting global pressure, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has pushed ahead with a deeply controversial new plan to deliver supplies to the besieged Strip. In a rare press conference on Wednesday night, Netanyahu said that in the “coming days” they would enact the scheme, which would replace the existing UN-led aid distribution system in Gaza with a new arrangement under full Israeli c…

Conflict & Cuisine: UN warns then retracts on Gaza starvation