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WHO Warns of Escalating Famine Risk in Gaza Amid Blockade
Geneva, May 13 (QNA) – The risk of famine in the Gaza Strip is increasing with the deliberate withholding of humanitarian aid, including food, in the ongoing blockade, the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned.
The entire 2.1 million population of Gaza is facing prolonged food shortages, with nearly half a million people in a catastrophic situation of hunger, acute malnutrition, starvation, illness and death. This is one of the world’s worst hunger crises, unfolding in real time, WHO said in a release.
The latest food security analysis was released today by the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) partnership, of which WHO is a member.
“We do not need to wait for a declaration of famine in Gaza to know that people are already starving, sick and dying, while food and medicines are minutes away across the border,” said WHO Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
“Today’s report shows that without immediate access to food and essential supplies, the situation will continue to deteriorate, causing more deaths and descent into famine,” Tedros added.
Famine has not yet been declared, but people are starving now. Three quarters of Gaza’s population are at “Emergency” or “Catastrophic” food deprivation, the worst two levels of IPC”s five-level scale of food insecurity and nutritional deprivation.
If the situation persists, nearly 71 000 children under the age of five are expected to be acutely malnourished over the next eleven months, according to the IPC report. (QNA)
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