Israel-Hamas war leaves thousands of Palestinians in Gaza facing "death by starvation," aid group warns
CBSN
Humanitarian agencies are issuing increasingly urgent warnings that thousands of Palestinian civilians trapped in the Gaza Strip amid Israel's war with Hamas face starvation. The Palestinian arm of the international charity ActionAid said Tuesday that one month into the war sparked by Hamas' terror attack on Israel, more than half a million people "who have barely survived the relentless bombing, face death by starvation as food supplies run perilously low" in the northern part of Gaza.
The northern part of the narrow, 25-mile-long Palestinian territory has been the scene of the most punishing Israeli airstrikes and its more recently launched ground operations. CBS News correspondent Charlie D'Agata rode along with Israeli soldiers Tuesday as they carried out an operation in the town of Beit Hanoun, whose roughly 60,000 inhabitants were virtually all gone, but there was still fighting.
Many of the civilians who live in Beit Hanoun and other towns across northern Gaza have fled south, as Israel's military has urged them to do for weeks, but with airstrikes regularly hitting all across the densely populated enclave — including in the south — others have either been unable or unwilling to risk the journey through a war zone.
