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TunisiaStatement by HR Borrell and Commissioner for Crisis Management Lenarčič on famine in Gaza
“High Representative Josep Borrell and Commissioner for Crisis Management, Janez Lenarčič, have issued the following statement:
“Five months into the Gaza crisis, the results of the updated Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) assessment released today indicate the unfolding of the worst possible forecast for Gaza.
Gaza is already facing famine, with 100% of people estimated to be acutely food insecure, according to the IPC. In Gaza’s Northern Governorates, 70% of the population are facing imminent famine.
In the centre and southern governorates, 50% of people face catastrophic food insecurity conditions. The situation is projected to deteriorate fast in the next weeks and months and famine is likely to also affect the South.
This is unprecedented. No IPC analysis has ever recorded such levels of food insecurity anywhere in the world.
Life-threatening levels of acute malnutrition have risen at an alarming rate since the last report, and we are already witnessing with horror the death of children due to starvation.
Hunger cannot be used as a weapon of war. What we are seeing is not a natural hazard but a manmade disaster, and it is our moral duty to stop it.
Over 30,000 people have already died due to the conflict, a large part of them children, and the death toll could rapidly increase due to starvation or diseases.
The situation has gone beyond catastrophic. There is an absolute imperative to act now.
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