More than 40% of people in Gaza to face 'catastrophic' levels of hunger
Some 41% of people in Gaza will face "catastrophic" levels of hunger in the coming months, a global authority on food security warned Thursday.
Some 41% of people in Gaza will face "catastrophic" levels of hunger in the coming months, a global authority on food security warned Thursday.
The report emerged as Israel came under increasing pressure, including from its most important ally, the United States, to allow in more essential humantiarian aid.
The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification, which sets a scale used by the United Nations and governments to assess hunger, said that there will be a persistent risk of famine in Gaza this winter unless more humanitarian aid reaches the Palestinian enclave.
The release also said that nine in 10 Gazans — roughly two million people — face “acute food insecurity” in the months ahead. and came as Reuters reported that the Israeli government has stopped processing requests from traders to import food to Gaza.
The move blocks a route that for the past six months has been used to supply more than half of the Palestinian territory’s provisions. Reuters spoke to 12 sources who confirmed the cessation: five Gaza-based importers, two businessmen sending goods from the West Bank, a Gaza-based business official and three people involved in aid delivery.
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