First Person: Gaza, where starving people are trapped in a land reduced to rubble

“We saw dead bodies scattered to the left and right, decomposing in the sun”, recounts Jonathan Dumont, Head of Emergency Communications at the World Food Programme (WFP). A veteran of conflict zones around the world, he says that the destruction and suffering he witnessed in Gaza is on a “different scale”.

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First Person: Gaza, where starving people are trapped in a land reduced to rubble

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