Washington, Jan. 31 -- About three months after the October 7, 2023, attack, which intensified Israeli military action in the Gaza Strip, employees of the US Agency for International Development (USAID) had warned officials in the then US president Joe Biden's administration that northern Gaza has turned into an "apocalyptic wasteland," with extreme food and aid shortages, with the written memo being blocked from being widely circulated in the government.

According to a Reuters report, the internal draft of 2024 detailed the harrowing condition observed by the United Nations staff who went there on a two-part humanitarian fact-finding mission in January and February.

The UN staff said they saw human bones on the roads, bodies in abandon...