US EditionWorst-case scenario of famine is now unfolding in Gaza, UN-backed monitor announces
- A leading global authority on food crises announced that Gaza is currently experiencing the most severe famine conditions amid the ongoing humanitarian emergency.
- This follows Israel's offensive starting October 7, 2023, triggered by Hamas attacks that killed about 1,200 people and took 251 hostage.
- Despite Israeli efforts to open humanitarian corridors and deliver aid, reports indicate severe food shortages, widespread malnutrition, and rising deaths.
- The World Health Organization reported 63 deaths in Gaza linked to malnutrition recently, with 24 of the victims being children younger than five years old, as Cindy McCain called for swift and unimpeded delivery of food aid to avert additional fatalities.
- The crisis reinforces the fragile state of Gaza’s health systems and suggests urgent, sustained international intervention to halt escalating famine conditions.
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When it is no longer just a word, it is a reality that consumes your life every day. It is the testimony of Roba, an Oxfam worker who lives in the Gaza Strip, where hard families manage to put together a meal a day. According to the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), the main international authority in the food crisis, in most of the Gaza Strip, the threshold of famine has been reached. Malnutrition has increased rapidly in the…
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AlKhaleej TodayGaza ‘on brink of full-scale famine’ as Israeli strikes continue despite aid push
GAZA CITY, July 30 — Gaza is slipping into famine, UN agencies warned on Tuesday, as the health ministry in the Hamas-run territory said the Palestinian death toll in the nearly 22-month war had topped 60,000.The World Food Programme, Unicef and the Food and Agriculture Organisation warned that time was running out and that Gaza was “on the brink of a full-scale famine”.“We need to flood Gaza with large-scale food aid, immediately and without ob…
Gaza experiencing 'worst case' scenario of famine, leading aid group warns
Israel's prime minister is facing growing international pressure to end the war in Gaza that has killed more than 60,000 Palestinians. A leading food crisis group is now warning of widespread famine in Gaza as deaths from starvation rise. Amna Nawaz reports. A warning, images in this story are disturbing.
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