US EditionUN-Backed Hunger Monitor Declares Famine in Gaza City, Warns of Rapid Spread
- On Friday, the United Nations officially announced that famine conditions have been confirmed in Gaza City’s northern area and its surroundings, marking the region's first documented famine in West Asia.
- This famine arose after Israel launched an extensive military offensive in Gaza in October 2023, following a Hamas-led attack that killed 1,200 people and took hostages in southern Israel.
- The famine affects over half a million people facing starvation, displacement of nine out of ten residents, decimated cropland, and soaring food prices amid restricted aid flows and severely damaged infrastructure.
- Amnesty International and UN officials described the famine as an entirely man-made, preventable catastrophe caused by deliberate obstruction of humanitarian aid and ongoing violence, with over 12,000 children acutely malnourished in July alone.
- The famine and conflict have caused widespread death and suffering, prompting urgent calls for an immediate ceasefire, unrestricted humanitarian access, the release of hostages, and a halt to the military offensive in Gaza City.
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The UN-mandated group of experts declared Friday, 22 August, in an official report that certain areas of the Palestinian enclave had entered a state of famine, and it was high time that the international community responded.
Famine confirmed in northern Gaza, according to a U.N.-backed agency
United Nations-backed experts say more than half a million people in northern Gaza are experiencing a full-blown famine. Their report finds hundreds of thousands could die from starvation as the famine spreads to other areas.
"Israel does not have a famine policy. Israel has a famine prevention policy," says Israeli Prime Minister
Amnesty demands Israel stop Gaza assault after famine declared
Amnesty International has called on the Israeli military to immediately halt its offensive on Gaza City following the declaration of famine by the leading authority on food insecurity on Friday. Amnesty's Senior Director for Research, Advocacy, Policy and Campaigns, Erika Guevara Rosas, said that the offensive "would not only lead to yet more mass violations of international humanitarian law, but would also deliberately, exponentially intensify …
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