Gaza at imminent risk of famine 3 months into Israel’s genocide, says UN official

NEW YORK: Famine is around the corner in Gaza as people there are facing the "highest levels of food insecurity ever recorded," the UN emergency relief chief Martin Griffiths said yesterday as the Israeli genocide campaign on the enclave completes over 91 consecutive days. Citing a death toll in the tens of thousands as a result of indiscriminate Israeli airstrikes, coinciding with attacks on medical facilities and a lack of functioning hospitals, Griffiths said in a statement that Gaza had become "a place of death and despair… Hope has never been more elusive." Griffiths added that a public health disaster is unfolding in Gaza as infectious diseases spread in overcrowded shelters, with sewers spilling over, adding that around 180 Palestinian women "are giving birth daily amidst this chaos." "Gaza has simply become uninhabitable. Its people are witnessing daily threats to their very existence - while the world watches on," Griffiths said in the statement issued by the United Nations Office for the Coordina tion of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). Over 22,500 Palestinians have been killed since Israel launched its relentless war on Gaza on October 7, according to the Ministry of Health. In addition, up to 1.9 million people have been displaced since the beginning of the war, according to the UNRWA. Source: Palestine News and Information Agency – WAFA