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The UN’s top aid official has renewed his call for a ceasefire in Gaza and outlined six priorities in the humanitarian response.
In a social media post via the account of the UN office for the coordination of humanitarian affairs (Ocha) on Friday, Martin Griffiths, the UN emergency relief coordinator, wrote:
The hostilities in Gaza entered their sixth month. These six facts should keep us all awake at night:
1) More than half a million people are on the brink of famine. Children are dying of hunger.
1) A ceasefire and full adherence to the rules of war.
2) Additional entry points, supply routes and storage capacity in Gaza.