Across the whole of the besieged enclave, the number of people facing 'catastrophic hunger' has risen to 1.1 million, about half the population, a UN-back report has found
Famine is expected between now and May in the north of the Gaza Strip, a UN-backed report said on Monday, after more than five months of war shattered the Palestinian territory, killed thousands and cut off supplies.
Fadi Al-Zant, a 6-year-old cystitis patient, is being treated at Kamal Adwan Hospital under harsh conditions due to lack of access to medicines, and is suffering from malnutrition Advertisement The number of people deemed at risk of catastrophic hunger in Gaza is nearly double the figure reported in December, when the last IPC on Gaza was issued and there was already record levels of hunger across the population.
'The actions needed to prevent famine require an immediate political decision for a ceasefire together with a significant and immediate increase in humanitarian and commercial access to the entire population of Gaza,' it said. With only a small fraction of the basic supplies coming in by land, aid donors have turned to deliveries by air drops and from the sea
With only a small fraction of the basic supplies coming in by land, aid donors have turned to deliveries by air drops and from the sea. But UN agencies said these are no substitute for land deliveries. Pink aid parcels, reportedly to mark International Women's Day, are airdropped over the northern Gaza Strip on March 5, 2024
READ MORE: Foreign Office staff told to not call Hamas 'terrorists' in Whitehall training session as academics brand term 'unhelpful and suggest Israel is a 'white, settler colonialist nation' 'Today's IPC report also shows that one in three children under two-years-old in the north of Gaza are now acutely malnourished, a dramatic deepening of the crisis from February when the figure was one in six.
Between 2007 and 2023, the restrictions placed on the Gaza Strip varied in response to a range of geopolitical events, but international groups consistently criticised Israel for not doing enough to alleviate the suffering citizens in the enclave. For years, international groups consistently criticised Israel for not doing enough to alleviate the suffering citizens in the enclave
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