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Famine is declared in Gaza as the food security indicators collapse

The global standard for assessing food insecurity reports more than 1-in-3 people go without food for longer than a day.

Children play beside a damaged UNRWA shelter.
Children play beside a damaged UNRWA shelter. (Khalid Kwaik/Unsplash)

GENEVA (AN) — Famine is now officially confirmed across the Gaza Strip, a catastrophic declaration by the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC).

This marks the dire culmination of a rapidly deteriorating humanitarian crisis, driven by an unprecedented collapse in food consumption and nutrition indicators, intensified conflict, and profound impediments to humanitarian access.

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