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Polio aside, UNRWA says they are also battling other diseases in Gaza as sewage and rubbish piles up (Photo: UNRWA)

UN agency fears 'status quo' of Gaza hunger, as war looms with Lebanon

Gaza's spiralling descent into misery continues ahead of the one-year anniversary of the war — and as conflict threatens a wider war between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon.

"A million people that we plan to assist with food aid in September will go without because the supplies just aren't there," said Sam Rose, senior deputy director at the UN-relief age...

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Nikolaj joined EUobserver in 2012 and covers home affairs. He is originally from Denmark, but spent much of his life in France and in Belgium. He was awarded the King Baudouin Foundation grant for investigative journalism in 2010.

Polio aside, UNRWA says they are also battling other diseases in Gaza as sewage and rubbish piles up (Photo: UNRWA)

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Nikolaj joined EUobserver in 2012 and covers home affairs. He is originally from Denmark, but spent much of his life in France and in Belgium. He was awarded the King Baudouin Foundation grant for investigative journalism in 2010.

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