"Communication blackouts stifle efforts to report on starvation and dehydration in the region.
...
several Western countries have suspended funding to the main UN agency in Gaza, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA)...
[Jordan, a US ally, pleaded with Western nations:] UNRWA was a “lifeline” for more than 2 million Palestinians in Gaza & that the agency shouldn’t be “collectively punished” over allegations against a dozen of its 13,000 staff