Entire Gaza population heading towards famine: UN
- December 21, 2023
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Various areas Gaza has reached its highest level, the level of “catastrophe.”according to a United Nations report on food insecurity, due to famine in the north and south
Various areas Gaza has reached its highest level, the level of “catastrophe.”according to a United Nations report on food insecurity, due to famine in the north and south of the Palestinian strip.
The UN, governments and non-governmental organizations such as Action Against Hunger prepare this table in which The Palestinian enclave has reached its maximum level in these areas after more than two and a half months of continuous Israeli attacks.
One in four households in Gaza suffers from hunger
“Food shortages are so severe that one in four households in the Gaza Strip suffers from hunger, alarmingly high rates of acute malnutrition among the youngest children and significant excess mortality,” Action Against Hunger warned this Thursday.
Most humanitarian organizations have reduced their activities in Gaza to a minimum after attacks resumed following the November truce, according to a non-governmental organization working in the enclave.
Many of the relatives 1.9 million Gazans were displaced, representing 85% of its population.They are taking refuge in the south, in places like Rafah, where even what Israel has designated as humanitarian zones have been hit by bombing.
The declaration of a “very high risk” of famine affects northern Gaza and thousands of displaced people in the south, “one of the most densely populated areas in the world, where half the population is children.”
More than 90% of its population lives in Gaza humanitarian disaster due to famine
There have been only four declarations of famine in recent decades: in South Sudan (2017), Somalia (2011), North Korea (1995) and Ethiopia (1984).
In the Gaza Strip, more than 90% of the population of about 23 million people is in a crisis, emergency or crisis phase. humanitarian disaster due to famine.
“Almost all households in the Gaza Strip are skipping meals every day,” the NGO warned, especially in the north and among displaced people in the south, “families they spend whole days and nights without eating anything“.
“Hunger should never be used as a weapon of war”
“Hunger should never be used as a weapon of war,” the organization condemned, because it not only leads to death, but also causes serious physical and psychological deterioration.
“Not enough aid is reaching Gaza,” he warned of difficulties accessing humanitarian aid through the only two posts operating in southern Gaza.
“The combination of incessant bombing, shortages of food, water, fuel and the inability of humanitarian organizations to work in the Gaza Strip has led us to this desperate situation,” lamented Chiara Saccardi, head of Action Against Hunger in the Middle East, quoted in the notice.
“Flour and rice are hard to come by and people have to wait for hours to access toilets and wash themselves. “We are experiencing a level of complexity in this emergency that I have never seen,” he added.
“People are angry, depressed, desperate and scared.”
Saccardi reported that “people are angry, depressed and despairing (…). “They are very afraid.”
Action Against Hunger repeated its call for a permanent ceasefire “as a matter of utmost urgency” so that a “meaningful humanitarian response” can be made if the international community “want to stop people from starving to death.”
This week, Human Rights Watch also accused Israel of using hunger and thirst as weapons of war in its offensive against the Gaza Strip. (EFE and Reuters)
Source: Aristegui Noticias
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