LONDON (Palestine Foundation Information Center) A committee of global food security experts warned on Friday of a “strong possibility of an imminent starvation in areas” in the northern Gaza Strip.
Famine Review Committee (FRC) said, “Immediate action, within days not weeks, is required from all actors who are directly taking part in the conflict, or who have influence on its conduct, to avert and alleviate this catastrophic situation,” it said.
Reuters quotes the Committee as saying, “If no effective action is taken by stakeholders with influence, the scale of this looming catastrophe is likely to dwarf anything we have seen so far in the Gaza Strip since October 7, 2023.”
The FRC said it could be “assumed that starvation, malnutrition, and excess mortality due to malnutrition and disease, are rapidly increasing” in northern Gaza, noting that “Famine thresholds may have already been crossed or else will be in the near future.”
For its part, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said that about 75,000- 95,000 people are still in northern Gaza.
The spokesman for the United Nations, Stephen Dujarric, said during a press conference, that the northern Gaza Strip has been under Israeli blockade for about a month, and that the Palestinians are dying from hunger while the world is watching, stressing “the need to stop these crimes.”
