Tel Aviv, Israel (AP)-“The worst situation of famine is currently playing out Gaza Strip, “Prophet” broader death “without immediate action,” leading the food crisis on the food crisis.
Alert, still less than a formal famine declaration, follows an outrage Images of weakened children in Gaza And about 22 months after the war, reports of dozens of hunger-related deaths. International pressure led Israel in the weekend Announce measuresWith daily human stagnation in fighting in parts of Gaza and Aircrafts. The Palestinians on the United Nations and the ground say very little has changed, and the desperate crowd continues to overwhelm and unload the delivery trucks before reaching its destinations.
Integrated Food Safety Charan Classification, or IPC, stated that Gaza has on the verge of famine for two years, but recent developments have spoiled the situation with “dramatically poor” situation with “rapid blockade” by Israel.
A formal famine declaration, which is rare requires the type of data that has rejected to a large extent the lack of access to the Gaza and the inner dynamics. The IPC has declared a famine only a few times – in Somalia in 2011, South Sudan in 2017 and 2020 in parts of the Western Darfur region of Sudan and last year.
But independent experts say that they do not require a formal announcement to know what they are looking at in Gaza.
“Just as a family physicians can often diagnose a patient, which he is familiar on the basis of visual symptoms without sending samples to the lab and waiting for the results, so we can also explain the symptoms of Gaza. It is a famine,” Alex De Well, “Mass Starms: The History and Future of Famin” and the Daw World Peace Foundation said.
What does it seem to declare famine
A region is classified as a famine when the following three situations are confirmed:
At least 20% of families are highly reduced to food, or are essentially hungry. At least 30% of children are suffering from intense malnutrition or ruin of children from six months to 5 years, meaning they are very thin for their height. And at least two people or four children are under 5 per 10,000, who are dying daily due to starvation or malnutrition and disease interaction.
The report is based on the information available through July 25 and says the crisis “has reached a dangerous and deadly turn point.” It says that data indicates that at the most levels of Gaza since the war began – and Gaza has reached the famine threshold for food consumption at its lowest level for rapid malnutrition in the city. The report states that about 17 out of every 100 children under 5 years of age have been malnourished in Gaza city.
The growing evidence suggests that “broad starvation.” Essential health and other services have collapsed. According to the World Food Program, one of the three people in Gaza is going without food for a time. Hospitals reported rapid increase in hunger related deaths in children under 5 years of age. Gaza’s population of more than 2 million has been squeezed into the rapidly small areas of the destroyed region.
In May, the latest analysis of IPC warned that if Israel does not raise, Gaza will fall into famine Stop its blockade and its military campaignIts new alert asks for immediate and large -scale action and warns: “Now the failure of working will lead to widespread death in most parts of the strip.”
What does aid ban look
Israel has banned assistance up to different degrees throughout the war. In March, it cut the entry of all goods, including fuel, food and therapy, to pressurize Hamas to free the hostages.
Israel reduced those sanctions in May, but pushed forward with a new one US-supported support distribution system It has been erased from chaos and violence. Traditional, United Nations -led aid providers say Delivery has been interrupted By Israeli military sanctions and robbery incidents, while criminals and hungry mobs are entering the convoy.
While Israel says there is no limit to how many assistance trucks can enter Gaza, United Nations agencies and support groups say the latest human measures are not enough to combat deteriorating starvation. In a statement on Monday, doctors without Borders called new aircrafts to be ineffective and dangerous, saying that they provide less support than trucks.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Said that no one is hungry in the gazelle And that Israel has supplied adequate support throughout the war, “Otherwise, there will be no ghazan.” Israel’s army on Monday criticized what it says to “false claims of intentional starvation in Gaza”.
Israel’s closest colleague now appears to disagree. “Those children look very hungry,” President Donald Trump said Monday of images from Gaza in recent times.
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Anna reported from Lovile, New York.
Sam Medic and Kara Anna, Associated Press
