Food distribution in the southern Gaza city of Rafah has been suspended due to a lack of supplies and insecurity, the UN says.The UN agency for Palestinian refugees, Unrwa, warned its distribution centre and a World Food Programme warehouse were now inaccessible because of the ongoing Israeli military against Hamas in eastern Rafah.

The United Nations (UN) on Tuesday said it had ran out of food supplies in Rafah, the city in the southern part of the Gaza Strip at the center of a possible new Israeli military push. The UN said food distribution was halted due to insecurity and the lack of supplies,

Amid high levels of hunger and acute shortage of food in Gaza, the United Nations has suspended food distribution in Rafah due to a lack of supplies and insecurity in the densely populated city, Voice of America (VOA) reported.