One in five households in Gaza go whole days without food, draft UN report says
More 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”.
The IPC said that in March and April, the amount of food deliveries and nutrition services reaching northern Gaza sharply increased, “likely averting a famine” there and helping to improve conditions in the southern parts of the territory.
But in recent weeks, the situation had “started deteriorating again following renewed hostilities” and “a high risk of famine persists across the whole of the Gaza Strip as long as conflict continues and humanitarian access is restricted,” a draft report obtained by the Guardian says. [Continue reading…]