Experts say there is a high risk of famine in Gaza
The Gaza Food Crisis as Seen by Experts from Integrated Food Security Phase Classifications, U.N. agencies and Major Aid Groups
According to a new report, half a million people are facing food shortages and nearly all of Gaza is struggling with food shortages. The analysis was conducted by 35 experts from the Integrated Food Security Phase Classifications, some from U.N. agencies and major aid groups. The I.P.C. was founded two decades ago to address famine in Somalia at the time.
The analysis was conducted by 35 experts, some from U.N. agencies and major aid groups. The I.P.C. was founded two decades ago to address famine in Somalia at the time.
According to government figures, 1,200 people were killed in the Gaza attacks, and over 250 were taken hostage. Israeli airstrikes, shelling and violence in Gaza since then has killed more than 37,000 Palestinians, including thousands of children, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry. It has not kept a tally of the missing or additional deaths from preventable disease, malnutrition and other consequences of war.
Israel stated that it has no official policy limiting aid. Some human rights organizations and the top prosecutor of the International Criminal Court believe that the Israeli leaders are using starvation in Gaza as a weapon of war, but the government insists it has facilitation by land, air and sea.
This appears to have “temporarily alleviated” conditions in north Gaza, the I.P.C. study says, adding that the “available evidence does not indicate that famine is currently occurring.”
In early May, Israel effectively shut down the Gaza border in Rafah with Egypt, where aid and fuel had been entering. Fighting between the Israeli military and Hamas in Gaza made it hard for aid organizations to reach warehouses there or collect aid that got into Gaza at the southern crossing. Aid groups said they were rationing food to give away while tens of thousands of people needed hot meals.
Humanitarian workers have beenkilled in Israeli airstrikes and aid groups say their trucks are being looted amid widespread hunger and lawlessness. The Israeli military has targeted local clans and police securing the aid.
People resorting to desperate measures such as boiling weeds, eating animal feed and exchanging clothes for money to stave off hunger and keep their children alive are some of the conditions under which they are enduring subhuman conditions.
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“We see patients who are just skin and bones, as a sign of severe malnutrition,” he observed. Patients have reported not eating food for months, making it difficult to recover from injuries and infections.
In Gaza there is not enough drinking water. “The other day, a young girl was admitted to the operating room and begged me for water,” he says.
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A report by 35 UN agencies and aid groups has said that nearly all of Gaza is struggling with food shortages, amid a conflict between Israel and Hamas. It added that around five lakh people are facing food shortages and nearly all of Gaza is facing food shortages. However, it said the “available evidence does not indicate that famine is currently occurring”.