UK delivers over 2,000 tonnes of food to Gaza amid biting starvation

The UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office announced on Wednesday that the largest UK humanitarian batch of over 2,000 tonnes was delivered to the Gaza Strip and is being distributed amid hunger and starvation as a result of Israeli blockades and ceaseless attacks.

“The UK’s largest delivery of aid to Gaza has crossed the border… More than 2,000 tonnes of food aid, funded by the government, is being distributed by the World Food Programme on the ground,” the office said in a statement.

The new aid delivery includes “fortified wheat flour for use in bakeries, hot meals,” and “Ready-to-Eat food parcels,” the statement read.

Each food package can feed a family of five people and includes “canned vegetables, meat and fish, and date bars.”

Such parcels will be used by more than 275,000 people in the enclave and “can meet half of the daily calorie needs of the family for 15 days.”

“Jordan facilitated the delivery of the cargo,” the statement added.

Last week, the UK foreign ministry said that 150 tonnes of relief items funded by the United Kingdom arrived and were distributed by UNICEF.

On October 7, 2023, the Palestinian movement Hamas launched a large-scale rocket attack against Israel and breached the border, attacking both civilian neighbourhoods and military bases.

The revised death toll in Israel from Hamas’s October 7 attack stands at 1,139 with dozens taken captive, according to Al Jazeera

While 31,923 Palestinians have been killed and 74,096 injured in Israeli retaliatory attacks on Gaza since then.