Gaza Strip
\nThe Gaza Strip\u2019s entire population, of which 80 percent are internally displaced, suffered from severe food insecurity, according to a new UN report.
\n\u201cOne hundred percent of the population of the Gaza Strip faced high levels of acute food insecurity,\u201d the report titled The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2024 stated.
\nCiting the Global Report on Food Crises 2024, the report said this was in comparison to South Sudan, Yemen and the Syrian Arab Republic where more than half of the population faced food insecurity.
\nAccording to the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), food insecurity is divided into five stages. The first two levels do not require immediate humanitarian assistance, while Phase 3 is called a \u201ccrisis,\u201d Phase 4 an \u201cemergency,\u201d and Phase 5 \u201cfamine\/catastrophe.\u201d
\nOver 705,000 people in five countries\/territories were projected to be facing Catastrophe (IPC\/CH Phase 5) levels of acute food insecurity in 2023, \u201cmost of them (576 000) in the Gaza Strip.\u201d
\nThe besieged enclave \u201cbecame the most severe food crisis since IPC assessments were first conducted.\u201d
\n\u201cBy late 2023, the entire population of 2.2 million was classified as facing Crisis conditions or worse (IPC Phase 3 or above), and 80 percent of the population was internally displaced,\u201d stated the report.
\nAn IPC Special Brief on Gaza dated 18 March 2024 warned of an imminent risk of famine, with more than a quarter of the population facing Catastrophe (IPC Phase 5) levels of acute food insecurity, the report noted, \u201cwhich at that time was projected to expand to threaten half the population \u2013 1.1 million people \u2013 by July 2024 if hostilities and restricted access to humanitarian aid continued.\u201d
\nThe report was jointly prepared by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), World Food Program (WFP), International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), UN Children\u2019s Fund (UNICEF), and World Health Organization (WHO).
\nAccording to the UN Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) more than 50,000 children require treatment for acute malnutrition in Gaza.
\nAt least 40 Palestinians have died due to starvation and malnutrition-related deaths in Gaza since October 7.
\nOn Saturday, two youths, ages 12 and 17, became the latest casualties of Israel\u2019s imposed blockade on northern Gaza, after succumbing to malnutrition and lack of medicine, reported the Quds News Network.
\nIn June, the United Nations Children\u2019s Fund (UNICEF), nine out of 10 children in the Gaza Strip are experiencing severe food poverty, amidst the ongoing genocidal war in the enclave.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Gaza Strip The Gaza Strip\u2019s entire population, of which 80 percent are internally displaced, suffered from severe food insecurity, according to a new UN report. \u201cOne hundred percent of the population of the Gaza Strip faced high levels of acute food insecurity,\u201d the report titled The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":207010,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-421201","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"yoast_head":"\n