UN humanitarian chief Tom Fletcher, who traveled to devastated Gaza City today, says the organization has a huge task ahead of it to deliver basic services and food.
Fletcher is the first United Nations official to visit the region since hostilities ended on October 10.
He said much of the city had been turned into a wasteland, speaking of a 60-day plan to boost food supplies, a million meals a day, rebuild the health sector, make tents for the winter and get children back to school.
The dead in Gaza exceeded 68,000, according to data provided by Hamas, without any indication of the percentage of its armed forces in the total.
Nearly five hundred people have died of malnutrition with the region declared in a state of Catastrophic Famine since last September due to insufficient aid entering the enclave.
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