The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has projected that over a million people in the Gaza Strip will face famine and death by mid-July 2024.
The UN agency issued its early warning report today, Wednesday, for the period between June and October 2024 regarding areas experiencing food crises, anticipating worsening acute food insecurity.
The FAO report affirmed that acute food insecurity would worsen further in 18 places experiencing hunger crises, highlighting Gaza and Sudan as the most dangerous of these places, noting that “the situation in Mali, Palestine, South Sudan, and Sudan remains of utmost concern.”
Data cited in the report showed that 100% of Gaza’s population, totaling 2.2 million people at the third level and above, known as the “Crisis” level in the UN’s Integrated Food Security Phase Classification.
The organization anticipated that the Israeli aggression on Gaza “would exacerbate the acute hunger, currently at a catastrophic level, leading to famine and deaths, as well as displacing all Gaza residents.”
