More than half the population of Gaza — 1.1 million people — is facing catastrophic levels of hunger, a group of international charities said, falling in the highest Phase 5 classification.
Palestinian children carry empty bowls during a march demanding an end to the war and an end to famine in the Gaza Strip, on March 6, 2024, in Rafah, Gaza. Famine may already be happening in northern Gaza and risks spreading across the besieged enclave, plunging 2.2 million Palestinians into the broadest and most severe food crisis in the world, the globe’s leading body on food emergencies said Monday., outlined a dire situation with more than half the population of Gaza — 1.
In the IPC’s five-tier classification of food crises, Gaza now has the largest percentage of a population to receive its most severe rating since the body began reporting in 2004, Beth Bechdol, deputy director general at the Food and Agriculture Organization , told The Washington Post.
The report is likely to add fuel to the increasingly sharp criticism of Israel from governments in the United States and Europe about the grim dimensions of the escalating humanitarian crisis in Gaza. On Monday, the European Union’s foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, repeated his assertion that Israel was using starvation as a “weapon of war.
The findings in the latest report confirm warnings of impending famine in parts of Gaza, in the absence of a cease-fire, from U.N. and other aid agencies in recent months. In desperation, some in northern Gaza have resorted to eating animal feed, even grass, and at leastHumanitarian officials blame the hunger crisis in the north on limited entry points for aid, a time-consuming Israeli inspection process and Israeli attacks on U.N.
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