From Global News.

The world’s leading authority on food crises said Friday that Gaza’s largest city is gripped by famine, which is likely to spread throughout the territory in the coming weeks.

The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) says famine is occurring in Gaza City, home to hundreds of thousands of Palestinians and could be declared in Deir al-Balah and Khan Younis by the end of the month.

“We’ve been warning for four months that the denial of humanitarian assistance would push children in Gaza to dangerous levels of food poverty. The signs were unmistakable: Children with wasted bodies, too weak to cry or to eat, Babies dying of hunger and preventable disease. And parents arriving at clinics without enough food to feed their children,” said Samir Elhawary, acting deputy director of UNICEF’s emergency programs.

“Today’s report confirms our worst fears.”

The determination by the IPC follows months of warnings by aid groups that Israel’s war in Gaza and its restrictions on food and other aid into the enclave were causing starvation among Palestinians.

Israel has rejected the report, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu calling it an "outright lie."

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