from Daily Sabah
A global monitor has warned that entire Gaza remains at high risk of famine as Israel's war grinds on and access to aid is restricted.
Although some delivery of supplies limited the spread of extreme hunger in the north, over 495,000 people across the territory are still facing the most severe, or "catastrophic", level of food insecurity, according to the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC).
That is down from a forecast of 1.1 million in the previous update three months ago but is still more than one-fifth of Gaza's population.
Under "catastrophic" food insecurity, households suffer an extreme lack of food, leading to acute malnutrition in young children, an imminent risk of starvation and deaths.
The IPC assessment published Tuesday said that to buy food, more than half of Gazan households surveyed had to sell clothes and one-third gathered and sold rubbish...
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