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In May 2024, the World Food Programme reported, "The threat of famine in Gaza never loomed larger". [138] The United Nations humanitarian chief stated famine in Gaza was an "immediate, clear and present danger" as food ran out and humanitarian operations were stuck. [139] The Gaza media office said 98 percent of bakeries were closed. [140]
Updated October 18, 2024 at 11:30 AM. ... Aid workers and U.N. officials have warned of widespread famine in Gaza since the conflict began more than a year ago on Oct. 7, 2023, when Hamas fighters ...
In late June 2024 a leaked UN document said that 95% of the population of Gaza were in food insecurity, while almost 500,000 were facing near-famine hunger. The report found famine remained a possibility throughout the entirety of the Gaza Strip, and that the risk was "as high" as at any other time during the conflict.
By June 2024, Israeli forces had also destroyed water wells in northern Gaza, reportedly exacerbating near-famine conditions. [9] By the end of May, more than 140 landfills were scattered across the 41 km-long Gaza Strip.
Extreme food shortages in parts of the Gaza Strip have already exceeded famine levels, and mass death is now imminent without an immediate ceasefire and surge of food to areas cut off by fighting ...
June 24, 2024 at 1:23 PM. KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) — An influx of aid appears to have eased a hunger crisis in northern Gaza for now, but the entire territory remains at “high risk” of ...
[34] [35] According to the United Nations in a report on 27 February more than half a million people in Gaza are on the brink of famine, with the UN World Food Programme warning of a real prospect of famine by May 2024. [36] International aid groups have reported people in northern Gaza are already facing near famine levels of hunger. [37]
A humanitarian disaster in Gaza is being deepened by a total breakdown in law and order and the conflict between Israel and Hamas is rendering the enclave uninhabitable, a senior official of the ...