Famine Is Imminent in Northern Gaza, UN-Backed Report Warns
- Some areas in the Gaza Strip may be already facing famine
- Israel’s own on-the-ground assessment shows no starvation
The possibility of a famine looms over northern Gaza as half the population of the area already faces “crisis levels of food insecurity or worse,” the United Nations warned.
Some 1.1 million people in Gaza – half of the population – have completely exhausted their food supplies and coping capacities and are struggling with catastrophic hunger, the World Food Programme said in a statement on Monday. Acute malnutrition in the war-torn region had stood at less than 1% before the recent fighting between Hamas and Israel erupted.