World News in Brief: Gaza aid crisis worsens, South Sudan clashes, Ecuador oil spill update

ONU - 14/04
The humanitarian situation in Gaza is now likely the worst it has been in the 18 months since the outbreak of the hostilities, the UN relief coordination office, OCHA reported on Monday.  

“It has now been a month and a half since any supplies were last allowed through the crossings into Gaza,” UN Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric told journalists at the daily media briefing in New York. 

OCHA said about 70 per cent of the Gaza Strip is currently under displacement orders or in “no go” zones.

Over the weekend, the Israeli military issued four new displacement orders, some of them following reports of Palestinian rocket fire.  

The UN was able to “relocate some existing fuel...
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