The Gaza Strip is experiencing a famine, which is being played out, as a very harsh guideline was given on Tuesday by an international food security alert system-Integrated Food Security Phase Classification. The warning is issued as the international community criticises an increasing number of Israeli military activities and the humanitarian situation develops in the Palestinian enclave.
This was the most extreme condition of famine that is taking place in the Gaza Strip, which refused the IPC, who point out mounting evidence of mass starvation, malnutrition, and a drastic rise in hunger-related fatalities. Although the IPC has not formally yet declared famine in Gaza, this was a procedure that is complicated by analysis, the IPC has now announced that Gaza will be evaluated accordingly, immediately.
Managing 21 partner organizations, the IPC is a union of UN agencies and international aid groups using stringent criteria to gauge that it is a cause of hunger. To be declared a famine, at least 20 percent of the population has to be experiencing extreme food shortages, 1 out of every 3 children must have severe acute malnutrition, and at least 2 out of every 10,000 people 2 people each day must be dying each day due to starvation or its consequences.
Recent IPC figures indicate that famine levels of food consumption have been reached in most areas of the region, with critical levels of feeding angst in Gaza City, where war has persisted for more than 22 months between Israel and Hamas militant groups. The estimated 2.1 million people in the enclave continue to be more or less isolated to prolonged humanitarian services.
The IPC insisted on the imperativeness of humanitarian access to be immediate and free of any obstacle, but there must be an end to hostilities; failure of which will result in additional suffering because lives will be lost in droves. The call by the International Rescue Committee leader, David Miliband, was also raising alarm over the fact that even though countries report that people are dying of hunger, in places like Somalia in 2011, by the time the famine was declared, 250,000 people, including half of the children, had already died.
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