famine

Rebels blocked supply routes, cutting off vital food-aid deliveries and plunging the city into famine.

Let’s give British Jews the same chance America once gave Irish famine victims, Russian dissidents, Vietnamese boat people, and Afghan translators.

Aid agencies have complained that humanitarian convoys still do not have enough access to Gaza to alleviate the famine conditions in parts of the territory, and families there are still going hungry.

Israel repeatedly cut off supplies into the Gaza Strip during the war, exacerbating dire humanitarian conditions, with the UN saying it caused a famine in parts of the Palestinian territory.

In July, a UN-backed body concluded that famine had occurred in Gaza, though Israel disputed the findings, saying there was "no starvation".