Gaza reaches highest level of famine humanitarian catastrophe
Several areas of Gaza have reached the level of catastrophe on the United Nations scale of food insecurity due to the famine in the north and south of the Palestinian Strip. teleSUR
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00:00 The United Nations Organization's Global Integrated Food Security Phase Classification
00:05 Partnership warned that Gaza faces critical levels of food insecurity in the region.
00:10 According to the agency, 93 percent of the population of the Gaza Strip faces critical
00:15 hunger rates with insufficient food and high levels of malnutrition.
00:20 It further noted that the lack of food is impacting the proliferation of disease throughout
00:25 the enclave, especially among children, pregnant and lactating women and the elderly.
00:31 It is worth mentioning that due to the devastation caused by the war and the Israeli blockade
00:36 against the Palestinian city, basic supplies have been critically scarce for the Gazan
00:41 population since October 7.