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Most Gazans go hungry

UN hopes to resume full aid work swiftly

AFP, CairoJ Geneva
Israel's onslaught in the Gaza Strip has left most of the 1.5 million people living there in need of food, but lack of security is hampering efforts to distribute aid supplies, a UN spokeswoman said yesterday.
The Israeli offensive, which has killed at least 785 Palestinians, has made at least 80 percent of the population dependent on donated food, said Nancy Ronan, spokeswoman with the UN's World Food Programme.
"The need on the ground is dire," she * told /\FP from Egypt's Rafah border crossing with Gaza, through which aid has passed since the conflict began.
"Eighty percent of the population is in need right now. maybe even beyond that," she said. "We got food into Gaza, but we now have a problem distributing it because of the securitysituation."
A UN refugee agency and the International Committee for the Red
Cross (ICRC) have said they would sus pend or temporarily restrict their operations in the territory because of Israeli attacks.
UNRWA, the main UN agency in Gaza which provides food aid to half the territory's people, said it had suspended its operations after tank shells hit a UN-flagged humanitarian convoy on Thursday, killing at least one person.
The ICRC is temporarily restricting its Gaza operations to the territory's main city after one person was lightly wounded when one of its vehicles escorting an ambulance convoy was hit, apparently by Israeli forces, an ICRC spokeswoman said.
Israel says it does its best to avoid civilian casualties and has begun operating a daily three-hour lull in attacks to help ease the situation, which aid agencies describe as q humanitarian crisis.
Meanwhile, the United Nations hopes to resume its full range of humanitarian work in the Gaza Strip as quickly as possi-
ble, a spokeswoman for the world body said Friday.
"The United Nations hopes to resume its usual activities as swiftly as possible following tire resolution adopted by the Security Council," UN spokeswoman Marie Heuze told AFP.
"We hope the ceasefire will intervene swiftly," Heuze added.
The principal UN relief agency in the Gaza Strip, UNRWA, which helps Palestinian refugees, suspended deliveries of supplies and food in the Gaza Strip on Thursday after one of its convoys was hit by Israeli shellfire, killing a truck driver.
Heuze insisted Friday that UN agencies on the ground and their relief staff were still working.
"It is a temporary suspension of operational movements, it's not a halt to operations by UNRWA, the UN and its agencies," said Heuze, the chief spokeswoman for the world body at its European headquarters.