AhlulBayt News Agency (ABNA): The hunger strike launched by a number of Jordanian activists in solidarity with the people of Gaza entered its tenth day on Monday.
The activists are calling on the Amman government to pressure the Israeli regime to allow the entry of humanitarian aid to northern Gaza after nearly two months.
They are part of a campaign launched with the motto “Struggle with empty stomachs and be the voice of besieged northern Gaza”.
While the number of hunger-striking activists was small at first, more and more are joining them every day.
Meanwhile, the health of some of them has deteriorated and they have been hospitalized.
The Israeli regime has been blocking the flow of any humanitarian aid into northern Gaza since September 25.
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has estimated that between 75,000 and 95,000 people are still trapped in northern Gaza, facing the dual risks of being killed in Israeli strikes or starving to death.
On Saturday, the WHO chief also warned about the escalating crisis in northern Gaza, noting that a famine is imminent there.
“Deeply alarming,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on X, referring to new findings from the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC).
The data, he noted, indicates that "there is a strong likelihood that famine is imminent in areas within the northern Gaza Strip."
The Israeli regime's genocidal war on Gaza, which began on October 7, 2023, has killed approximately 44,000 Palestinians, injured another 102,700, and displaced almost 2.2 million people.
Israel has also imposed a blockade on free movement, which has led to severe shortages of food, clean water, and medicine.
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