Statement by High Representative Josep Borrell on famine in Gaza “Hunger cannot be used as a weapon of war. What we are seeing is not a natural hazard but a manmade disaster, and it is our moral duty to stop it.“

Directorate-General for European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations (ECHO) ^ | 3/18/24 | Directorate-General for European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations (ECHO)

[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.

[1756-L85E]

Spare me the faux outraged indignation. Breathtakingly juvenile appeal to emotion.

[JimRed]

How sweet of you to wrap your neo Nazism up so nicely.

Projecting much?

[JimRed]

I wish the adults in this child's life would love their children as much as they hate Israel.

It's been said before.

Peace will come when the Arabs will love their children more than they hate us.”. ― Golda Meir,