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Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
Politics
Alia Chughtai, Hanna Duggal

What is famine, and why is Gaza at risk of reaching it soon?

Half a million people in the Gaza Strip, or one in five Palestinians, are facing starvation.

The entire rest of the population is suffering from high levels of acute food insecurity, according to a recent report by the UN’s Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC).

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