A famine has officially been declared in Gaza for the first time since Israel launched its war on Palestinians.

With United Nations food distribution centres shut down, bakeries bombed and humanitarian access throttled by Israel, more than 271 people – 121 of them children – have died from hunger.

Metro previously spoke with Philippe Lazzarini, commissioner-general of UNRWA, the UN agency, which supports Palestinian refugees, who warned that Israel is using hunger as a weapon of war in the Palestinian territory.

Almost three months later, the UN-backed Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) is expected to confirm famine in Gaza.

The IPC is a globally recognised system for classifying the severity of food insecurity and malnutrition, which has been used to declare four fami

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