Michael Fakhri, UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food said that famine has become 'inevitable' in the Gaza Strip, after the decision of some countries to stop funding for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA). Fakhri explained that stopping support for UNRWA means leaving 2.2 million people under the weight of hunger. Several countries suspended their funding to UNRWA after allegations, which are being investigated, of the participation of a number of its employees in the Oct. 7 attacks on the Israeli entity. UNRWA was established by a decision of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in 1949, and was mandated to provide assistance and protection to refugees in its five areas of operations: Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, West Bank, occupied Jerusalem, and Gaza Strip. Since Oct.7, 2023, the Israeli occupation forces have launched a devastating aggression against the Gaza Strip, which has so far left 26,637 martyrs and 65,387 injured, most of them chil dren and women, and caused massive destruction and an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe, while more than 8,000 citizens are still missing under rubble and on the roads. Source: Oman News Agency ROME: The first batch of 11 wounded children accompanied by family members from the war-torn Gaza arrived in Rome, Italy, to receive further medical treatment in Italian hospitals. Ambassador of the State of Palestine to Italy, Abeer Odeh, stressed that this humanitarian initiative by Italy, which offered treatment to over one hundred Palestinian children in Italian hospitals, should be coupled with effective measures and adequate political positions, including demanding Israel to stop its genocide against Palestinians immediately and recognizing the state of Palestine. The number of wounded in the Gaza Strip has exceeded 67 thousand, which proves the savagery of the Israeli occupation, she stressed. The brutal aggression on Gaza has left only 14 of 36 hospitals in Gaza partially functional, including nine in the south and six others in the north. Source: Palestine News and Information Agency