The UN report on northern Gaza could not confirm earlier warnings of famine in the area but said people were still suffering as a result of the ongoing war that Hamas launched against Israel from Gaza on October 7.
In May, the Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET), founded and funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and run by Israel critic Samantha Power, report There was a possibility of famine in northern Gaza.
Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) Famine Review Committee (FRC) Published A report published on the United Nations website verifying FEWS NET’s warning.
As a result, we found the following:
[Current: 1-30 April 2024] The FRC determined that the FEWS NET analysis was not valid given the uncertainty and lack of convergence of the supporting evidence used in the analysis, and therefore the FRC cannot determine whether the hunger threshold was crossed during April.
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[Projection: 1 May – 31 July 2024] The FRC did not find the FEWS NET analysis to be appropriate for the current period and therefore cannot approve the IPC Phase 5 (Famine) classification for the forecast period.
However, this FEWS NET forecast is consistent with the FRC forecast made in March 2024, which has yet to be updated.
The report added a disclaimer that its findings “do not in any way change the fact that extreme human suffering is undoubtedly ongoing in the Gaza Strip, nor do they in any way alter the urgent humanitarian imperative to address this civilian suffering.”
Asked about the report’s findings, Israeli government spokesman David Mensah said Monday that there was “no famine in Gaza.”
“It is true that Hamas is looting trucks and selling aid supplies at significantly increased prices,” he added.
He also said the IPC had used “famine rhetoric” in the past but that Israel had “denied” it, noting that hundreds of aid trucks were entering Gaza every day despite the war.
As Breitbart News reported, Israel used the daytime lull in fighting to open additional aid corridors in southern Gaza.
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