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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Peter Beaumont

Famine is now probably present in Gaza, US says

A nine-year-old Palestinian boy experiencing malnutrition at a field hospital in Rafah.
A nine-year-old Palestinian boy experiencing malnutrition, evacuated from northern Gaza to an International Medical Corps field hospital in Rafah. Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images

Famine is already probably present in at least some areas of northern Gaza, while other areas are in danger of falling into conditions of starvation, the US state department said on Friday a day after the world’s top court ordered Israel to admit food aid into the territory.

“While we can say with confidence that famine is a significant risk in the south and centre but not present, in the north, it is both a risk and quite possibly is present in at least some areas,” a state department official told Reuters.

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