An initiative funded by the US agency overseeing foreign aid, USAID, has taken down a report on its website that sounded the alarm about tens of thousands of Palestinians in northern Gaza at risk of death under Israeli siege.
The report was published on Monday and used figures provided by the United Nations.
According to the news outlet Jewish Insider, which initially reported on the report’s withdrawal, the report described a “near-total blockade of humanitarian and commercial food supplies to besieged areas of North Gaza Governorate,” and stated that 65,000 to 75,000 civilians remained in the area, “including civilians who have been unable to or prevented from evacuating”.
The US ambassador to Israel, Jacob Lew, quickly reprimanded the report on social media.
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