World Central Kitchen, a food service in the Gaza Strip, said it had suspended its humanitarian operations in the southern city of Rafah as Israel stepped up its ground assault on the city.
The US-based non-profit wrote to X on Tuesday that it would relocate its community kitchen further north in the besieged Gaza Strip.
“Due to the ongoing attacks, we have been forced to suspend operations at our main kitchen in Rafah and relocate many of our community kitchens further north.”
The charity said “countless families are being forced to flee again” in the face of regime attacks.
The ministry said the “situation is serious” but that it had managed to provide around 100,000 meals to displaced Palestinians on Tuesday.
World Central Kitchen, which is dedicated to ending hunger around the world, resumed operations in Gaza in late April, about a month after seven aid workers were killed in an Israeli airstrike.
“Ultimately, we decided we had to keep feeding them,” the group said of the decision.
Aid groups say delivering aid to Gaza has become difficult since Israel launched its offensive in Rafah in early May.
Even when medical supplies and other aid arrive in Gaza, transporting and delivering them to both the south and north remains “extremely challenging,” he said.
The World Health Organisation's representative in the Palestinian Territories, Rick Pieperkorn, had previously warned about malnutrition in Rafah.
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