Gaza poses a major challenge for experts because Israel severely limits access to the territory, making it difficult and in some cases impossible to gather data.

 

The leading international authority on food crises is the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification, or IPC, first set up in 2004 during the famine in Somalia. It includes more than a dozen U.N. agencies, aid groups, governments and other bodies.

 

While the IPC says it is the “primary mechanism” used by the international community to conclude whether a famine is happening or projected, it typically doesn’t make such a declaration itself. Famine declarations usually come from the U.N. or governments.

 

Gaza has been at risk of famine for months, experts say. Here's why they haven't declared one

 

GENEVA (Reuters) -The Norwegian Refugee Council told Reuters on Tuesday its aid stocks are completely depleted in Gaza, with some of its staff now starving, and accused Israel of paralysing its work.

 

"Our last tent, our last food parcel, our last relief items have been distributed. There is nothing left," Jan Egeland, the secretary general of the council told Reuters in an interview via video link from Oslo. 

 

The council's comments echo those made earlier on Tuesday by the head of the Palestinian refugee agency, who said UNRWA's staff were fainting on the job from hunger and exhaustion. 

 

No aid supplies left and staff are starving in Gaza, says Norwegian Refugee Council

The journalists' association of the French wire service Agence France-Presse (AFP) warned on Monday that staff working with the agency in Gaza are at risk of starvation and that "without intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die."

 

The Société des Journalistes de l’Agence France-Presse (SDJ) said that the agency still has "one freelance writer, three photographers, and six video freelancers" working in Gaza after most of its staff left the Strip last year.

 

Along with a handful of others, they are some of the last Western journalists reporting on the ground in Gaza.

 

AFP journalists at risk of starving to death in Gaza 'without intervention,' news agency says

From the Bangkok post this morning, more than 100 NGO’s warn that mass starvation is spreading across Gaza.

 

https://www.bangkokpost.com/world/3074200/more-than-100-ngos-warn-mass-starvation-spreading-across-gaza.

Over a thousand people have been killed waiting in food lines. Now doctors and Nurses are joining the dangerous food lines.

 

Humanitarian workers in Gaza, once providers of aid, are now facing the same fate as those they serve, starvation.

 

Over 100 global NGOs, including Médecins Sans Frontières and Amnesty International, have warned that the Israeli blockade has not only choked off vital resources but left aid workers fainting from hunger. “We are watching our colleagues waste away,” the joint statement read.

 

Doctors Fainting From Hunger in Gaza

 

 

13 hours ago, bannork said:

GENEVA (Reuters) -The Norwegian Refugee Council told Reuters on Tuesday its aid stocks are completely depleted in Gaza, with some of its staff now starving, and accused Israel of paralysing its work.

 

"Our last tent, our last food parcel, our last relief items have been distributed. There is nothing left," Jan Egeland, the secretary general of the council told Reuters in an interview via video link from Oslo. 

 

The council's comments echo those made earlier on Tuesday by the head of the Palestinian refugee agency, who said UNRWA's staff were fainting on the job from hunger and exhaustion. 

 

No aid supplies left and staff are starving in Gaza, says Norwegian Refugee Council

The Israeli learned from the best (80 years ago)

12 minutes ago, bannork said:

Over 100 global NGOs, including Médecins Sans Frontières and Amnesty International,

 

I would agree with you  (and I think so would the majority on here) if they would just give back whatever hostages they haven't yet killed...

 

But they wont ---and you wont condemn them for that.   

 

Hamas--once again showing just how much they love their brethren ... 

I'd call this an improvement.    

1 hour ago, oxo1947 said:

 

I would agree with you  (and I think so would the majority on here) if they would just give back whatever hostages they haven't yet killed...

 

But they wont ---and you wont condemn them for that.   

 

Hamas--once again showing just how much they love their brethren ... 

I condemn Hamas for not giving the hostages back and I condemn Israel for killing and starving civilians who are no part of the conflict .

Babies that were just whispers of skin and bone died as their mothers were too starved to produce milk to feed them.

 

Now even the medics trying to treat the malnourished at Shifa Hospital in north Gaza are so hungry and sick themselves that some have fainted and been treated with intravenous fluids.

 

Palestinian health officials say at least 111 people have died of hunger during the conflict, including 80 children, most of them in recent weeks and 10 in the last 24 hours alone.

 

‘No one is spared’: Children are starving to death in Gaza and even the medics treating them faint from hunger

3 hours ago, bannork said:

I condemn Hamas for not giving the hostages back

 

Could you give us all a link to you Condemning Hamas Please...... 

 

Humza Yousaf and his wife Nadia El-Nakla said her cousin Sally, her four children and husband were being deliberately and forcefully starved by the Israeli government.

 

Ms El-Nakla, an SNP councillor in Dundee, said her aunt Hanan, her children and grandchildren, including a seven-month-old baby, were also being starved.

 

She said the town of Deir Al Balah, where her family live, was “hit hard” by the Israeli Defence Force (IDF).

“Starving people were being forced to run while being shot and bombed,” she said in a video alongside her husband on social media.

 

Humza Yousaf: Israel is starving my wife’s family

14 minutes ago, oxo1947 said:

 

Could you give us all a link to you Condemning Hamas Please...... 

Please post  a link where I have stated my support for Hamas.

Pitty. 

July has been one of the deadliest months of the war in Gaza, with Israel killing one person every 12 minutes.

 

The UN says more than 1,000 Palestinians have died trying to get food, mostly when they attempted to collect aid from hubs.

 

Behind these visible deaths lies the horror of systematic starvation: “minutely engineered, closely monitored, precisely designed”, in the words of Prof Alex de Waal, an expert on humanitarian crises

 

 

The Guardian view on starvation in Gaza: it will take more than words to halt Israel’s genocide

 

 

 

 

10 hours ago, bannork said:

Please post  a link where I have stated my support for Hamas.

 

 

 

14 hours ago, bannork said:

I condemn Hamas for not giving the hostages back

 

Yer as most readers know---you lied in that post,   

 

you have never condemn Hamas, even after their killing of children and imprisonment for now nearly 2 years.... To post thread after thread just condemning Israel seems implicit just who you support.----nice deflection though.

16 hours ago, oxo1947 said:

 

I would agree with you  (and I think so would the majority on here) if they would just give back whatever hostages they haven't yet killed...

 

But they wont ---and you wont condemn them for that.   

 

Hamas--once again showing just how much they love their brethren ... 

The people getting killed queuing for food and aid are not holding hostages.

 

And then there’s the fact that Israel has now moved to a policy of interning the Palestinians in a concentration camp and ethnically cleansing Gaza.

 

It is no longer just about the hostages.

The mission is ethnic cleansing, dead Palestinians are Palestinians that don’t have to be expelled.

 

1 hour ago, oxo1947 said:

 

 

 

 

Yer as most readers know---you lied in that post,   

 

you have never condemn Hamas, even after their killing of children and imprisonment for now nearly 2 years.... To post thread after thread just condemning Israel seems implicit just who you support.----nice deflection though.

You are writing nonsense. Condemning Israel's actions, bombing of civilians, deliberate starvation, doesn't imply approval of Hamas's attack of Israel and its policy of hiding behind civilians.

 

 

Gaza is experiencing a deepening food crisis, with Palestinian health officials reporting at least 111 hunger-related deaths, including 80 children, mostly in recent weeks.

 

Doctors at Shifa Hospital report children dying from malnutrition and their own staff fainting from hunger, highlighting the severe lack of food and baby formula. The head of the UN’s Palestinian refugee agency said “no one is spared” among doctors, nurses, journalists and humanitarians.

 

Over 1,000 Palestinians have reportedly been killed by Israeli forces while attempting to access food aid, with incidents of aid convoys and distribution points coming under fire.

 

Inside Gaza’s deepening food crisis: ‘No one is spared’

The head of the main UN agency serving Palestinians has said his frontline staff are fainting from hunger, as the number of people dying of starvation in Gaza continued to rise and hopes for a ceasefire faded as negotiations collapsed.

 

“This deepening crisis is affecting everyone, including those trying to save lives in the war-torn enclave … When caretakers cannot find enough to eat, the entire humanitarian system is collapsing,” Philippe Lazzarini, the head of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (Unrwa), said on Thursday.

 

At least 45 people have died of hunger in the last four days. The UN and aid groups blame Israel’s blockade of almost all aid into the territory for the lack of food.

 

‘Hungry aid staff fainting’ as starvation spreads in Gaza and truce hopes fade

 

International concern is growing over the plight of the more than two million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, where the fighting has triggered a dire humanitarian crisis and warnings that "mass starvation" was spreading.

 

Four leading news organizations said Thursday that their journalists in Gaza are facing the threat of starvation as the Israel-Hamas war grinds on.

 

The media outlets' joint statement called on Israel to allow journalists in and out of Gaza and allow adequate food supplies into the territory.

 

Gaza war: As world leaders seek 'durable' solution, '100 Palestinians each day find theirs in death' | Watch

 

For in-depth analysis and a deeper perspective on the harrowing plight of civilians in war-torn Gaza, FRANCE 24's Carys Garland welcomes Dr. Graeme Groom, Orthopedic surgeon, humanitarian worker and Co-Chair of IDEALS Charity.