Critics have long said that accusations of famine in Gaza have a gaping hole right in the middle: the staggering amount of emaciated, dead bodies, part and parcel of a famine, are simply nowhere to be found.

When the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification, a United Nations-linked food security agenda, determined in August that a famine was indeed ongoing in parts of Gaza, those behind the report said that the sheer devastation in Gaza did not allow for an accurate accounting of starvation-related deaths.

Instead, they said, they were using another key criterion for famine that generally goes hand-in-hand with malnutrition deaths, and extrapolating on the former to determine the latter was taking place.

That key criterion, called mid-upper arm circumference (MUAC), appears to hav

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