Gaza: Famine declared as Israel continues to “weaponise” food and clean water

More than half a million people in Gaza are now “trapped in famine,” as food and clean water continue to be used as weapons of war as part of Israel’s “genocidal campaign,” aid agencies have said.

The latest report from the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) system has confirmed that famine is now widespread in Gaza. This is the first time a famine has been officially declared in the Middle East region.1 It means that three critical thresholds have been met: extreme food deprivation, acute malnutrition, and deaths related to starvation.

Save the Children’s international chief executive officer, Inger Ashing, said, “All of Gaza is being …

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