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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Julian Borger Senior international correspondent

US-Israel war on Iran driving historic levels of global hunger, UN says

People grab sacks of flour from a moving lorry
People grab sacks of flour from a moving lorry carrying World Food Programme aid in Gaza in November 2025. Photograph: Abdel Kareem Hana/AP

The continuing US-Israel war on Iran has compounded other global disasters to drive record numbers of people into hunger at a time when funding to combat famine has fallen dramatically, the deputy head of the UN World Food Programme has said.

The WFP says 363 million people around the world are now at risk of acute hunger, 45 million of them as a result of conflict in the Middle East and the consequent oil price spike.

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