OTTAWA – The MP overseeing Canada’s foreign aid is calling on Israel to stop restricting the flow of food aid to the Gaza Strip — while Israel’s ambassador is pushing back on Ottawa’s suggestion that his country is violating humanitarian law.

“Gaza is officially the hungriest place on earth. This is profoundly disturbing,” Randeep Sarai, the secretary of state for international development, posted Monday on the platform X.

The Israeli government has set up an agency to distribute aid in four locations in Gaza, effectively shutting down hundreds of sites that had been operated by international agencies across the territory.

Israel says this was necessary in order to stop aid from reaching Hamas, but the World Food Programme says aid diversion was not happening to any significant degree.

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