Director of the World Food Program Cindy McCain sat for a interview with NBC’s “Meet the Press” host Kristen Welker to discuss the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, saying there is “total famine” in northern Gaza.
“Whenever you have conflicts like this, and emotions run high, and things happen in a war, famine happens. And so, what I can explain to you is [that] There’s complete famine in the North, and it’s moving toward the South,” McCain told Welker during the interview, which will be broadcast in full on Sunday.
McCain expressed great concern amid ongoing humanitarian crises, calling for a “ceasefire” for “unfettered access” to safe food delivery to Gaza.
Welker followed McCain into the interview, asking: “[what] you’re saying [is] there is total famine in northern Gaza,” and the director of the World Food Program responded, saying, “Yes, I am.”
In March, the United Nations food agency issued a declarationwarning that famine was “imminent” in Gaza as the war between Israel and Hamas continued.
McCain previously stated, after a report from the World Food Program (WFP), that “People in Gaza are starving right now. The speed with which this crisis of man-made hunger and malnutrition has spread across Gaza is frightening.”
During the interview, Welker assured that there was no official statement about the famine in Gaza, but McCain expressed that this was what he saw, saying: “It’s a horror.”
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