Gaza latest: Famine declared in Gaza City
A famine has officially been confirmed in Gaza City and the surrounding neighbourhoods by a UN-backed, globally recognised system for classifying food insecurity and malnutrition.

Gaza famine 'deep stain on our collective humanity'
A famine being declared in Gaza is a "deep stain on our collective humanity", ActionAid UK has said.

Responding to the IPC's report, Taahra Ghazi, co-CEO of the charity, said food and other aid "must be allowed to enter Gaza unhindered", rapidly and at scale.

"That famine should be officially confirmed in Gaza for the first time by the IPC despite months of repeated warnings, and despite it being entirely preventable, is a deep stain on our collective humanity," Ghazi said.

"Let there be no doubt: this is an entirely engineered famine and the direct result of the Israeli authorities' deliberate blocking of food, water and other humanitarian aid into Gaza, which breaches international humanitarian law.

"It is utterly shameful that, for so many months, the Israeli authorities have used starvation as a weapon of war with impunity: now we are seeing the calamitous consequences play out."

The charity official also said people in Gaza City are now "in the midst of an intensified assault by the Israeli military".

"There is now a race against time to stop this famine from becoming any further entrenched. Every hour counts and there is no time to waste," Ghazi added...

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