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Entire Gaza Population At 'Severe Levels Of Acute Food Insecurity': Blinken

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks during a joint press conference with Philippines' Secretary of Foreign Affairs Enrique Manalo in Manila (Credit: AFP)

The entire population of Gaza is experiencing "severe levels of acute food insecurity", US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Tuesday, underscoring the urgency for increasing the delivery of humanitarian aid into the Palestinian territory.

"According to the most respected measure of these things, 100 percent of the population in Gaza is at severe levels of acute food insecurity. That's the first time an entire population has been so classified," Blinken told a press conference in the Philippines where he is on an official visit.

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