NEW YORK CITY: Gaza is facing a catastrophic hunger crisis, with food insecurity and malnutrition reaching levels that meet the official thresholds for famine, UN agencies warned on Tuesday. An alert from the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification, a system for determining the scale and nature of a food crisis, said that two of the three official indicators used to determine famine conditions are now present in parts of the Gaza Strip.

PARIS: The UN and NGOs are warning of an imminent famine in the Gaza Strip — a designation based on strict criteria and scientific evidence. But the difficulty of getting to the…

Famine in Gaza is no longer a speculative threat, nor is it merely a rhetorical tool to shame the international community into action. It is now a brutal, undeniable fact. The…