Key points
- Israeli operations against civilians, aid workers “unacceptable”: Canada
- 90,000 women and children need urgent malnutrition treatment: WFP
- Israeli strike kills at least six Palestinians in central Gaza since dawn
ISLAMABAD: Canada said on Wednesday that Israeli military operations against civilians and aid workers in Gaza were unacceptable, and called for the immediate resumption of United Nations (UN)-led aid distribution in the war-torn enclave.
Reuters cited the statement of the Canadian foreign ministry as saying, “Israeli military operations against WHO staff and facilities, World Food Programme aid convoys, and the ongoing killing of Palestinians seeking urgently needed food and water are unacceptable”.
“Hunger in Gaza has reached catastrophic levels … Canada calls for the immediate resumption at scale of UN-led aid,” the ministry said.
Level of desperation
Earlier, the World Food Programme (WFP) has urged increased food aid to Gaza as the hunger crisis plaguing the enclave has reached “new and astonishing levels of desperation”.
In a post on X, the WFP wrote that in Gaza, nearly one in three people is not eating for “days”.
“90,000 women & children need urgent malnutrition treatment. Food assistance is the only solution to stop starvation in its tracks. There’s no time to lose,” the WFP said.
Gaza’s hunger crisis has reached new and astonishing levels of desperation.
🔴Nearly 1 person in 3 isn’t eating for days
🔴90,000 women & children need urgent malnutrition treatmentFood assistance is the only solution to stop starvation in its tracks. There’s no time to lose. pic.twitter.com/O4MO31Pbht
— World Food Programme (@WFP) July 23, 2025
More than 100 aid organisations warned that “mass starvation” was spreading across the Gaza Strip due to an Israeli siege on the number of aid trucks entering the enclave.
Al Jazeera reported on Thursday that Israeli bombardment has killed at least eight Palestinians and wounded several others in central Gaza since dawn.
