Food supplies in southern Gaza at risk, UN officialsays

Supplies of food to southern Gaza are at risk after Israel extended its military operations to Rafah, and those displaced by the offensive there face a public health crisis, a senior U.N. official said Friday.

While hunger and the risk of famine have been most acute in northern Gaza in recent months, the situation is now deteriorating in the south, said Carl Skau, deputy director of the U.N. World Food Program.