Currently, 26% of households in Gaza have exhausted their food reserves and capacity and are already suffering from extreme hunger.
From magazineeyn.com
Hostilities, including shelling, ground operations and the siege of the entire population, have resulted in catastrophic acute food insecurity across the Gaza Strip, which is now at high risk of famine, the food phase classification report warned. Food security prepared for nutrition and the United Nations Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Food Program (WFP).
About 85% of the population (1.9 million people) are displaced; Many people have had to move several times and are concentrating on an ever smaller area. There is a risk of famine and it is getting worse every day as the current situation with intense clashes and limited humanitarian access continues or worsens, the publication warns.
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The specialized agencies said that the intensification of hostilities, greater restrictions on access to food, basic supplies and vital assistance, and the extreme concentration or isolation of people in inadequate shelter or areas without basic services were important factors contributing to increasing the risk. .
Currently, 26% of households in Gaza have exhausted their food reserves and capacity and are already suffering from extreme hunger, which will turn into famine if access to adequate food, clean water, and health and sanitation services is not restored, the organizations stressed.
The report contains data from various UN agencies and non-governmental organizations confirming that the entire population of Gaza (approximately 2.2 million people) is already in crisis or worse, an acute crisis of food insecurity.
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“The World Food Program has been announcing this impending catastrophe for weeks. “Tragically, without the safe and constant access we have demanded, the situation is desperate and no one in Gaza is safe from hunger,” emphasized the agency’s executive director, Cindy McCain.
According to the study, famine would occur in the next six months if the conflict continues and restrictions on access to humanitarian goods remain in place.
Food aid supplied more than two-thirds of the population before the escalation of hostilities and is now completely inadequate to meet growing needs.