Posted on 03/18/2024 6:46:25 AM PDT by hardspunned
Five months into the Gaza crisis, the results of the updated Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) assessment released today indicate the unfolding of the worst possible forecast for Gaza.
Gaza is already facing famine, with 100% of people estimated to be acutely food insecure, according to the IPC. In Gaza's Northern Governorates, 70% of the population are facing imminent famine.
In the centre and southern governorates, 50% of people face catastrophic food insecurity conditions. The situation is projected to deteriorate fast in the next weeks and months and famine is likely to also affect the South.
This is unprecedented. No IPC analysis has ever recorded such levels of food insecurity anywhere in the world.
Life-threatening levels of acute malnutrition have risen at an alarming rate since the last report, and we are already witnessing with horror the death of children due to starvation.
(Excerpt) Read more at civil-protection-humanitarian-aid.ec.europa.eu ...
Spare me the faux outraged indignation. Breathtakingly juvenile appeal to emotion.
Projecting much?
It's been said before.
Peace will come when the Arabs will love their children more than they hate us.”. ― Golda Meir,
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