The Israeli announcement occurs when the 2 million residents of Gaza are on the verge of famine, with images of emaciated children who give international outrage after appearing in the media around the world.
Finding food has become more difficult and mortal for the Palestinians since an organization backed by the United States and Israel, the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, took over the help distribution process at the end of May. Hundreds of people have been killed or injured in recent weeks, since they sought to obtain limited humanitarian aid, including 20 who were killed yesterday, according to a spokesman for the Ministry of Health of Gaza.
The UN Human Rights Office said yesterday that “nutritional partners report that acute malnutrition among children in Gaza has reached the highest levels recorded to date.”
Almost 12,000 children from 6 months to almost 5 years were identified as acutely malnotrecious, and those over 2,500 suffered the most potentially deadly way, he said.
Last week, the Integrated Food Safety Phase (CPI) said on an alert that the “worst hungry cases is currently being developed in the Gaza Strip.”
The IPC reported that two of the three hungry thresholds had been reached, in Gaza, had reached food consumption and acute malnutrition.
“The famine has not been declared as the third criterion, deaths from malnutrition, they cannot be demonstrated,” said the UN.
The World Food Program said last week that the last numbers confirmed that Gaza “faces the serious risk of famine.”
“This is not a future risk, it is a current catastrophe,” said the PMA.
