Monitoring group says famine will be the first ever declared in the Middle East region
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Monitoring group says famine will be the first ever declared in the Middle East region
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A famine is set to be declared in Gaza for the first time since the start of Israel’s two-year-long war against Hamas, with the hunger crisis reaching a tipping point due to low supplies of critical aid.
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The international body responsible for monitoring world hunger will officially declare famine in Gaza City for the first time, it…
A UN-backed report has confirmed that there is widespread famine in Gaza, the first time a famine has been declared in the Middle…
The system for classifying food insecurity has been used to declare just four famines since it was established in 2004
The Israeli foreign ministry rejected the UN’s famine declaration, calling the report ‘based on Hamas lies’.
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