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World Food Programme warns that Gaza is facing widespread hunger [SOUND]

# The United Nations World Food Programme has warned that the Gaza Strip now faces a massive food gap and widespread hunger, as nearly the entire population is in desperate need of food assistance. Fuel shortages have triggered a crippling halt in bread production across all 130 bakeries in Gaza. WFP’s regional director for the Middle East, Corinne Fleischer, says of the one-thousand-129 trucks that have entered Gaza since the opening of the Rafah border crossing on the 21st of last month, only 447 were carrying food supplies:

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