Humanitarian Crisis Looms in Gaza, warns UN

The United Nations has warned of a looming humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip as the region remains dangerously low on basic foodstuffs as a result of the continued closure of the main trade crossing with Israel.

The Gaza director of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), John Ging, said his organisation had run out of food to distribute to the most at risk families, reports AFP.

"Every day is taking us closer to a humanitarian crisis," John Ging told reporters.

"Flour and wheat are not the only products in short supply. There is a shortage of sugar, oil and many of the other basic commodities.

"If the borders remain closed then everything will begin to become a crisis in itself."