The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has raised alarm over rapidly deteriorating hunger crisis in the Gaza Strip, where famine is imminent to occur anytime between now and May 2024 in the northern governorates, according to a new report.
According to the report published yesterday by the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) global initiative, the new data released indicated that the entire population in the Gaza Strip is facing high levels of acute food insecurity classified in IPC Phases 3 (Crisis), 4 (Emergency) or 5 (Catastrophe).
This includes half of the population or about 1.11 million experiencing catastrophic food insecurity (IPC Phase 5).
According to the IPC latest data, virtually all households are skipping meals every day and adults are reducing their meals so that children can eat.
In the northern governorates, in nearly two thirds of the households, people went entire days and nights without eating at least 10 times in the last 30 days. Recent data shows that, in the northern governorates, one in three children under the age of two is acutely malnourished.
