Some 345,000 Gazans will face ‘catastrophic’ hunger this winter, UN warns
“Approximately 1.84 million Gazans suffer from high levels of acute food insecurity corresponding to level 3 or higher” of the scale that has 5 (3: crisis, 4: emergency, 5: disaster). A figure that should increase to 1.95 million between November and April, or more than 90% of the population, according to UN projections for the period November 2024-April 2025. Among them, 345,000 will face a situation “catastrophic”or 16% of the population.
Although the food aid that arrived this summer helped improve the situation, the virtual cessation of convoys in September reversed the trend, laments the IPC. In light of this report, FAO Deputy Director-General Beth Bechdol called for “immediately restore humanitarian access to deliver essential food aid and seeds in time for the October-December winter planting season”. The publication of this report comes after the United States and UN officials warned Israel against “hunger politics” that would be orchestrated in Gaza to “make a weapon of war”which Israel rejected.
