According to the international government responsible for monitoring food safety, hunger was first approved in the first established Gaza stretch.
In a report published on Friday, the integrated classification of food safety (IPC) said it had “reasonable evidence” that hunger arose in the Gaza Governorate, an administrative region covering the city of Gaza, from 15 August.
“After 22 months of ruthless conflict, more than half a million people are facing catastrophic conditions in the Gaza Strip, which are characterized by fasting, misery and death,” the government said.
About 132,000 children under five years are expected to suffer from acute malnutrition until 2026. June – twice as much as IPC rating from May. – 41,000 of them were considered particularly vulnerable.
The IPC also predicted that hunger would expand to two other central governor-deir al-Balah and Khan Younis by the end of September.
Hunger is officially declared when three criteria are satisfactory: at least 20% of households lack high food, at least 30% of children suffer from an acute malnutrition, and at least two adults or four children in 10,000 inhabitants die each day from hunger or in the wrong combination of illness and illness.
“In order to prevent further life and hunger loss, it is very important to immediately cease and stop conflict,” IPC said.
Israel rejects a message as “bias”
The Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs rejected the IPC’s assessment saying, “There is no starvation in Gaza.”
The Israeli authorities responsible for the Cogat of Palestinian territories also categorically rejected the report by writing X: “Previous IPC reports and assessments have been repeatedly proven inaccurate and do not reflect the reality site.”
Cogat accused the IPC “consciously”, regardless of the report data provided to its authors at the meeting before publishing its publication, “although he did not specify the exact nature of the data.
Cogat CEO Ghassan Allian said: “The IPC report is based on partial and unreliable sources, many of them related to Hamas and obviously ignore facts and broad humanitarian efforts led by the Israeli state and its international partners.”
“Instead of submitting a professional, neutral and responsible assessment, the report follows a biased approach that includes severe methodical deficiencies, thus harming its reliability, and the trust that the international community can present in it,” he quoted.
The Israeli army is currently entering the city of Gaza after the government has approved plans to capture about $ 1 million. Metropolis to destroy the remaining participants of the Palestinian extremist group Hamas.
The new offensive caused fear of further suffering for civilians who were most short of essentials, including food, as Israel introduced a blockade of almost complete help this year.
Last month, Israel partially eliminated its blockade, allowing a limited amount of assistance to the Gaza Strip, although the aid organizations said that the amount is almost enough to avoid starvation.
Four hinges worldwide over the past 15 years
2004 Established on IPC’s initiative includes nearly two dozen UN and assistance organizations. This classifies food safety according to five levels, and hunger at the fifth level is the most difficult.
Until now, the entire Gaza band has been classified as a fourth -level “accident”.
Four hungs have been confirmed by IPC in the last 15 years: in Somalia in 2011, South Sudan in 2017 and 2020, and recently in Sudan 2024.
The World Health Organization noted that Friday’s classification marks the first time when hunger was announced in the Middle Eastern country.