The United Nations aid chief said on August 22 that the famine that has struck part of Gaza was preventable, blaming the "systematic obstruction" of aid by Israel and demanding that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu let supplies in on a massive scale. Israel dismissed the report as false and biased, saying the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification had based its survey on partial data largely provided by Hamas, which did not take into account a recent influx of food. #gaza #famine #israel #unitednations #aid