The United Nations has warned that famine in Gaza is 'almost inevitable.'
Extreme food shortages in parts of the Gaza Strip have already exceeded famine levels, and mass death is now imminent without an immediate ceasefire and surge of food to areas cut off by fighting, the global hunger monitor said on Tuesday. The Integrated Food-Security Phase Classification , whose assessments are relied on by UN agencies, said 70 per cent of people in parts of northern Gaza were suffering the most severe level of food shortage, far exceeding the 20 per cent famine threshold.
"Starvation is used as a weapon of war. Israel is provoking famine." Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz responded that Borrell should "stop attacking Israel and recognise our right to self-defence against Hamas' crimes".
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