Entire Gaza population facing hunger crisis, famine risk: UN-backed report
Al Jazeera
The proportion of households affected by acute food insecurity is largest ever recorded globally, the report says.
The entire 2.3 million population of Gaza is facing crisis levels of hunger and the risk of famine is increasing each day, a United Nations-backed report says.
The proportion of households in Gaza affected by high levels of acute food insecurity is the largest ever recorded globally, according to the report by the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) published on Thursday.
The extent of hunger in Gaza has eclipsed even the near-famines in Afghanistan and Yemen of recent years, according to figures in the report.
“It doesn’t get any worse,’’ the World Food Programme’s chief economist, Arif Husain, said.
“I have never seen something at the scale that is happening in Gaza and at this speed – how quickly it has happened in just a matter of two months.”
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