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Sudan Events – Sumaya Sayed\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n UN humanitarians reported on Monday that a food convoy in Gaza had been hit by shelling after a deadly weekend of hostilities in Gaza in which at least 234 Palestinians were reportedly killed, stoking regional tensions in the Middle East.<\/p>\n \u201cThis morning a food convoy waiting to move into northern Gaza was hit by Israeli naval gunfire; thankfully no-one was injured,\u201d said Tom White, Director of Affairs for the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, UNWRA.<\/p>\n Accompanying the post on X, formerly Twitter, two photographs showed a stationary flat-bed lorry parked in front of a UN vehicle with a gaping hole where part of its cargo and protective tarpaulin had been.<\/p>\n Several boxes of relief supplies lay scattered on the roadside, but it was not immediately clear what they contained nor where the lorry was.<\/p>\n UNRWA\u2019s bid to reach the beleaguered north came as the UN World Food Programme (WFP) reported last Friday that it, too, had been unable to reach northern Gaza City for the third time in a week.<\/p>\n \u201cWe only managed four convoys in the month of January, that\u2019s around 35 truckloads of food (and) enough for almost 130,000 people,\u201d said WFP Country Director for Palestine, Matthew Hollingworth.<\/p>\n \u201c(It\u2019s) really not enough to prevent a famine and we know levels of hunger in Gaza are getting at that level now,\u201d the WFP officer said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sudan Events – Sumaya Sayed\u00a0 UN humanitarians reported on Monday that a food convoy in Gaza had been hit by shelling after a deadly weekend of hostilities in Gaza in which at least 234 Palestinians were reportedly killed, stoking regional tensions in the Middle East. \u201cThis morning a food convoy waiting to move into …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":13685,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13684"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13686,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13684\/revisions\/13686"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}