'In Gaza, no one has enough to eat': UN chief

By Diyar Guldogan

WASHINGTON (AA) - UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres voiced deep concern Tuesday about nutrition in the Gaza Strip where Israeli attacks continue.

"I am dismayed to say that our world today is teeming with examples of the devastating relationship between hunger and conflict.

"In Gaza, no one has enough to eat," Guterres said at a UN Security Council meeting on the maintenance of international peace and security.

"Of the 700,000 hungriest people in the world, four in five inhabit that tiny strip of land," he added.

Climate chaos and food crises are "serious and mounting" threats to global peace and security, said Guterres.

Israel has pounded the Gaza Strip since an Oct. 7 Hamas attack, killing at least 28,473 victims and injuring 68,146, while nearly 1,200 Israelis are believed to have been killed in the Hamas attack.

The Israeli war on Gaza has pushed 85% of the territory's population into internal displacement amid acute shortages of food, clean water and medicine, while 60% of the enclave's infrastructure has been damaged or destroyed, according to the UN.