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Food Programme in a race against time to prevent widespread starvation in Gaza [SOUND]

# The United Nations World Food Programme has warned that it’s in a race against time to prevent widespread starvation in Gaza. More than 90 lorry loads of humanitarian aid have been collected by UN teams inside the Gaza Strip, days after Israel eased an eleven-week-long blockade. The WFP’s deputy executive director, Carl Skau, told Al Jazeera that food, enough to feed the entire population for two months, is pre-positioned at aid corridors and ready to be brought into Gaza at scale:

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