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“The children are hungry, we see them looking for food”: Is Gaza already gripped by hunger?

Two babies whose emaciated legs poke out of their diapers, a young patient so skeletal that his eyes seem huge, a mother crying over the body of her daughter who died of malnutrition… More than one face has illustrated the hunger that the inhabitants of the Gaza Strip suffer from. Six months into the war, which followed an unprecedented Hamas attack on Israel, civilians in the enclave now see death coming in different ways: through daily bombings, through the near collapse of the health system and through water shortages. and food.

Famine has not yet been officially declared in the territory. The term is strictly defined and defined by three criteria: at least 20% of the population of a given territory faces extreme levels of hunger, 30% of children are malnourished, and there is a daily hunger-related mortality rate or a combination of malnutrition and disease of two adult deaths per 10,000 inhabitants or four child deaths.

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Source: Le Parisien

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