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An estimated 160,000 people in Gaza now face going hungry as the escalation of violence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, and across the border into Israel, continues into its second week, the UN World Food Programme (WFP) said on Tuesday.

In addition to seeing that they get enough to eat, another priority for the agency’s Country Director in Palestine, Samer AbdelJaber, is making sure that his aid team stays safe, as he explains to UN News’s Daniel Johnson.


This content originally appeared on UN News and was authored by Daniel Johnson, UN News - Geneva.

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[1] UN World Food Programme (WFP) ➤ http://www1.wfp.org/