Famine-level shortages in Gaza, mass deaths imminent: UN hunger monitor – Times of India
Food shortages in parts of the Gaza Strip have already far exceeded famine levels, and mass death is now imminent without an immediate ceasefire and surge of food into areas cut off by fighting, the global hunger monitor said.The UN-backed Integrated Food-Security Phase Classification, or IPC, which formally declares famines, said two of its three criteria - the overall shortage of food and prevalence of malnutrition - had probably already been met.It didn't have enough full data on death rates, its third criterion, but believed residents in affected areas would be dying of starvation and malnutrition at famine scale imminently, and children under four may already be. The group - set up in 2004 - has classified a famine only twice before: in Somalia in 2011 and in South Sudan in 2017."F...