Airdrops are not enough to avert the humanitarian catastrophe, says the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification Initiative. amine now unfolding in Gaza, UN-backed monitor says
Famine is “now unfolding” in Gaza, with thousands of children malnourished and hunger-related deaths on the rise among the youngest, a UN-backed monitor has said in an alert.
The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification Initiative (IPC) said that airdrops over Gaza will not avert the “humanitarian catastrophe” unfolding across the territory.
“The worst-case scenario of famine is now unfolding in the Gaza Strip,” said the UN-backed group of organisations, used as a monitor to gauge malnutrition.
“Immediate, unimpeded” humanitarian access into Gaza was the only way to stop rapidly rising “starvation and death”, it added.
The alert, which is not a formal designation of famine in Gaza, from the IPC said:
Mounting evidence shows that widespread starvation, malnutrition, and disease are driving a rise in hunger-related deaths …
Latest data indicates that famine thresholds have been reached for food consumption in most of the Gaza Strip and for acute malnutrition in Gaza City
