More than half a million people in the northern part of the Gaza Strip are officially experiencing famine , a United Nations-backed food security initiative announced on Friday . This classification comes nearly two years into Israel ’s war with Hamas, a Palestinian terrorist organization that has governed Gaza since 2007 and launched an attack against Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, killing more than 1,200 Israelis , mostly civilians. During the ongoing conflict, Israel has blocked most food and aid from entering the Palestinian territory, leading to famine in Gaza.

According to the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), a system that measures food insecurity and malnutrition, 32 percent of the population of Gaza City and the surrounding areas “are facing catastrophic c

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