Latest snapshot also finds half of households have had to sell or swap clothes for food, despite pressure on Israel to improve aid deliveriesMore than half of households in Gaza have had to sell or swap their clothes to be able to buy food, the UN is to report, as a high risk of famine remains across the whole of the territory after a new round of violence in recent weeks.The latest “Special Snapshot” of Gaza from the UN’s hunger monitoring system, the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), that will be published on Tuesday also says that one in five of the population – more than 495,000 people – are now “facing catastrophic levels of acute food insecurity” involving “an extreme lack of food, starvation, and exhaustion”. Continue reading…
Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/24/gaza-households-hunger-draft-un-report
Author : Jason Burke International security correspondent
Publish date : 2024-06-24 19:00:21
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