Famine set to be officially declared in Gaza for first time by UN-backed group

[Aristaeus]

The report will declare that the threshold for famine has been reached in Gaza City, in parts of the south and central areas of the territory but not in the north, where data is insufficient.

The UN-backed Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) is a globally recognised system for classifying the severity of food insecurity and malnutrition.
It has been used to declare just four famines since it was established in 2004, most recently in Sudan last year.

Famine confirmed in Gaza City for first time, UN-backed body says – Israel-Gaza war latest updates

‘Famine in Gaza is entirely man-made’, UN-backed food security body says

www.theguardian.com

 

[Callen]

How can any decent person support this continued genocide? It's truly despicable and Netanyahu is truly evil.

 

[Apocalypse]

Interesting that the clownish UN body had to change the very definition of famine cutting the threshold by half so it can use the label in Gaza.

UN-Backed Famine Watchdog Quietly Changed Standards, Easing Way To Declare Famine in Gaza

The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification used a new metric for Gaza, changing its rules to make it possible to declare a famine in the Strip.

freebeacon.com

UN-Backed Famine Watchdog Quietly Changed Standards, Easing Way To Declare Famine in Gaza​

 

[Pyrite]

The report will declare that the threshold for famine has been reached in Gaza City, in parts of the south and central areas of the territory but not in the north, where data is insufficient.

The UN-backed Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) is a globally recognised system for classifying the severity of food insecurity and malnutrition.
It has been used to declare just four famines since it was established in 2004, most recently in Sudan last year.

Famine confirmed in Gaza City for first time, UN-backed body says – Israel-Gaza war latest updates

‘Famine in Gaza is entirely man-made’, UN-backed food security body says

www.theguardian.com

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Gaza City and Surrounding Areas Officially Hit by Famine, Global Group Says

At least half a million people in the enclave were facing the most severe conditions measured by U.N.-backed international experts: starvation, acute malnutrition and death.

www.nytimes.com

Gaza City and the surrounding territory are officially suffering from famine, a global group of experts announced on Friday, nearly two years into an unrelenting war in which Israel has blocked most food and other aid from entering the Gaza Strip.

The group, which the United Nations and aid agencies rely on to monitor and classify global hunger crises, said that at least half a million people in Gaza Governorate were facing the most severe conditions it measures: starvation, acute malnutrition and death.

With rare exceptions, the rest of Gaza’s total population of two million people was also struggling with severe hunger, according to the group, the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification, which is made up of experts who monitor world hunger.

For many of those people, the group said, conditions were likely to worsen, sending two additional governorates farther south — Deir al-Balah and Khan Younis — into an official famine by the end of September.

The group said in a report published on Friday that a combination of factors had tipped Gaza into famine: the intensifying conflict, stringent Israeli restrictions on aid, the collapse of health care, water and sanitation systems, the destruction of local agriculture and the growing number of times people had been forced to flee for new shelters....

 

[Aristaeus]

Interesting that the clownish UN body had to change the very definition of famine cutting the threshold by half so it can use the label in Gaza.

UN-Backed Famine Watchdog Quietly Changed Standards, Easing Way To Declare Famine in Gaza

The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification used a new metric for Gaza, changing its rules to make it possible to declare a famine in the Strip.

freebeacon.com

They used MUAC due to lack of humanitarian access by Israel.

As for the 15% threshold:

IPC classification protocols allow for the use of either weight-for-height z-scores (WHZ) or MUAC-based case definitions for acute malnutrition in children, aged 6-59 months. There are separate thresholds for the two indicators, with a 30% cut-off when using WHZ to classify Phase 5 and a 15% cut-off when using MUAC. If both indicators are available, then WHZ is used in preference.

Due to the lack of WHZ data from Gaza, all IPC and FRC analyses since October 2023 have been conducted using MUAC. When utilising MUAC, a prevalence above the 15% threshold does not, by itself, distinguish between IPC Phase 4 and IPC Phase 5. To decide whether the classification should be IPC Phase 4 or IPC Phase 5, the threshold is used in conjunction with other contextual information on the immediate causes of acute malnutrition, the locally understood relationship between MUAC and WHZ prevalence, and by using the convergence of evidence. As there is no survey data available from the Gaza Strip that can be used to compare the relationship between the prevalence of acute malnutrition measured using MUAC and WHZ, the FRC consulted the published literature during its previous reviews to determine the appropriate use of the MUAC-based thresholds. The relationship between the median prevalences from nutrition surveys in the Middle East has been reported by Leidman et al. (2019). The analysis from this paper showed that the ratio of the median prevalences from these surveys was 1.9, indicating that prevalence of acute malnutrition measured using GAM by MUAC is likely to be about half of that measured using WHZ. Combining this information with information on contextual factors allowed the FRC to determine that the appropriate threshold to use for an IPC Phase 5 (Extremely Critical) classification of acute malnutrition was 15%.

 

[snakestretcher]

Interesting that the clownish UN body had to change the very definition of famine cutting the threshold by half so it can use the label in Gaza.

UN-Backed Famine Watchdog Quietly Changed Standards, Easing Way To Declare Famine in Gaza

The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification used a new metric for Gaza, changing its rules to make it possible to declare a famine in the Strip.

freebeacon.com

Citing a far-right, pro-Israel conservative source? Yep, that always works well for credibility!

Washington Free Beacon - Bias and Credibility

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mediabiasfactcheck.com

 

[snakestretcher]

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Gaza City and Surrounding Areas Officially Hit by Famine, Global Group Says

At least half a million people in the enclave were facing the most severe conditions measured by U.N.-backed international experts: starvation, acute malnutrition and death.

www.nytimes.com

Gaza City and the surrounding territory are officially suffering from famine, a global group of experts announced on Friday, nearly two years into an unrelenting war in which Israel has blocked most food and other aid from entering the Gaza Strip.

The group, which the United Nations and aid agencies rely on to monitor and classify global hunger crises, said that at least half a million people in Gaza Governorate were facing the most severe conditions it measures: starvation, acute malnutrition and death.

With rare exceptions, the rest of Gaza’s total population of two million people was also struggling with severe hunger, according to the group, the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification, which is made up of experts who monitor world hunger.

For many of those people, the group said, conditions were likely to worsen, sending two additional governorates farther south — Deir al-Balah and Khan Younis — into an official famine by the end of September.

The group said in a report published on Friday that a combination of factors had tipped Gaza into famine: the intensifying conflict, stringent Israeli restrictions on aid, the collapse of health care, water and sanitation systems, the destruction of local agriculture and the growing number of times people had been forced to flee for new shelters....

You'll be told the UN is an anti-Semitic organisation. It's all the pro-Israeli cohort has left in the excuses department. It got old real quick.

https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2024/09/27/netanyahu-slams-united-nations-antisemitism-in-general-assembly-speech/

 

[Aristaeus]

You'll be told the UN is an anti-Semitic organisation. It's all the pro-Israeli cohort has left in the excuses department. It got old real quick.

https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2024/09/27/netanyahu-slams-united-nations-antisemitism-in-general-assembly-speech/

Even Israeli organisations like B'Tselem are Hamas mouthpieces according to a certain poster.