With its mission up for renewal, the U.N. force is under pressure to disband even as Israeli airstrikes continue along one of the world’s most volatile borders.
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The IPC’s findings that a quarter of Palestinians in Gaza are starving should mark an urgent turning point in this warThe declaration on Friday of widespread famine in Gaza by the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) should mark a turnin…
The IPC’s findings that a quarter of Palestinians in Gaza are starving should mark an urgent turning point in this warThe declaration on Friday of widespread famine in Gaza by the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) should mark a turnin…
Catastrophic hunger caused by aid blockade is most keenly felt by elderly people, the young and the destituteIn the overcrowded, rubble strewn streets of Gaza City, there was little surprise at the announcement that UN-backed experts believed the scene…
Catastrophic hunger caused by aid blockade is most keenly felt by elderly people, the young and the destituteIn the overcrowded, rubble strewn streets of Gaza City, there was little surprise at the announcement that UN-backed experts believed the scene…
A panel of food security experts said the famine could spread to more of the enclave within weeks.
Famine in Gaza is the ‘direct result of actions taken by the Israeli government’ and deaths from starvation may amount to a war crime, the UN human rights agency spokesperson Jeremy Laurence has said Israel-Gaza war – latest updates Continue reading…
At least half a million people in the enclave were facing the most severe conditions measured by U.N.-backed international experts: starvation, acute malnutrition and death.
Malnutrition has reached 21.5% in Gaza City, meaning around one in five young children are suffering from malnutrition, Unrwa has saidEight Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks on the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza and the Mawasi al-Qa…