• UN agencies, IPC sound alarm based on Rome; The WFP official compares a situation with Ethiopian, Biafra Hunger
• The United Kingdom moves towards the “recognition” of the Palestinian State; Ishaq give what is called ‘test case’ for the world
Gaza / London: Gaza’s besieged territory is sliding in the famine, UN help agencies warned on Tuesday, since the number of war from the almost 22 months of Israel exceeded 60,000.
The World Food Program (WFP), UNICEF and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) warned that time was running out and that Gaza was “on the verge of a large -scale famine.”
Meanwhile, the Integrated Food Safety Phase classification initiative (CPI) based in Rome will not be enough to avoid “humanitarian catastrophe”.
“The worst case of famine is now being developed in the Gaza Strip,” said the IPC, a group of NGOs and institutions that serves as the world’s main monitor to measure malnutrition, in a statement.
The CPI said that their latest data shows that the “famine thresholds” have been reached in most Gaza and that deaths related to hunger for young children were rapidly increasing.
Although Israel launched daily breaks in its military operations in some parts of Gaza during the weekend, and opened safe routes to allow the UN and other help agencies to distribute food, the Israeli strikes continued overnight, killing 30 people in the Nuseirat refugee camp.
Speaking in Geneva, the emergency director of the PMA, Ross Smith, said that the humanitarian disaster was a reminiscence of the famine of the last century in Ethiopia and the Biafra region of Nigeria.
“This is different from everything we have seen in this century,” he told reporters.
United Kingdom move towards recognition
After an emergency meeting of his cabinet, the United Kingdom Prime Minister Keir Starmer had announced that Great Britain would make the movement unless Israel took substantive measures to allow greater help to enter Gaza, made it clear that there will be no annexation of the West Bank and commit to a long -term peace process that offers a solution of two states.
Starmer said his government would make an evaluation in September on “to what extent the parties have fulfilled these steps”, but that no one would have a veto about the decision.
“I have always said that we will recognize a Palestinian state as a contribution to an adequate peace process at the time of the maximum impact for the solution of two states,” he said in a Downing Street direction.
France recently announced that the State of Palestine would formally recognize in September, and the United Kingdom would become the second permanent member of the UN Security Council to do so, if it continues with recognition.
UN conference
Meanwhile, the Vice Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ishaq Dar, has called the question of Israel-Palestine as a “test case” for the world, particularly for the United Nations, and has sought “credible and applicable international action.”
His call came during the three -day conference on “the peaceful settlement of the Palestine issue and the implementation of the solution of two states”, co -presided by France and Saudi Arabia.
In his comments, Deputy PM Dar said to the conference: “The Palestinian question is a case of proof for the United Nations and the world. Pakistan reaffirms its unwavering and mainly support for the inalienable right of the Palestinian people to self-determination, including their right to a viable, independent and adjoining state of Palestinum, based on the pre-1967 border Al-Shar.
During his speech, Giving urged the conference to “guarantee the universal recognition of the State of Palestine and its complete members of the UN.”
He said: “Pakistan is ready to extend the dedicated technical assistance and support for the development of capacities to our Palestinian brothers and sisters … Pakistan is prepared to contribute to the construction of institutions, even through participation in the Arab Plan-OIC and any international protection mechanism.
“The question of Palestine has impacted the entire region and beyond. We must give hope to the Palestinian people. The occupation must end and end now. It is time for freedom, self -determination and status, and the total UN Palestinian membership. That will be the best guarantee for lasting peace in the region.”
Apart from the conference, Dar met the Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Mustafa and made a detailed exchange on the serious situation in Gaza and occupied the Palestinian territory.
He also met Kuwait’s Foreign Minister Abdullah Al-Yahya, expressed his “deep concern to continue Israeli acts of aggression against Palestinians and worsen the humanitarian situation in Gaza.”
Posted in Dawn, July 30, 2025
