Head of main UN agency serving Palestinians says frontline staff are fainting from hunger; Emmanuel Macron says France will recognise Palestinian statehood
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The humanitarian crisis inside Gaza deepens as Médecins Sans Frontières has said a quarter of Gaza’s young children and pregnant or breastfeeding women screened at its clinics in Gaza last week were malnourished, AFP reports.
The head of the main UN agency serving Palestinians has said his frontline staff are fainting from hunger, as the number of people dying of starvation in Gaza continued to rise.
It comes as Emmanuel Macron has announced France will recognise Palestinian statehood, saying he hoped it would bring “lasting peace” to the Middle East.
