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The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (I.P.C.) Study of Gaza, Two Decades After Israel Declared a Siege

In order to buy food, more than half of households in Gaza have had to exchange clothing and other goods for money, according to the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification. Some people are picking up trash to make money. The report says many in Gaza go entire days and nights without eating.

The analysis was conducted by 35 experts, some from U.N. agencies and major aid groups. Two decades ago, the I.P.C. was founded to help fight famine in the Horn of Africa.

Israel declared a siege on Gaza after the Hamas-led attacks on Oct. 7 that killed 1,200 and took around 250 hostages, according to the government figures. More than 37,000 people, including many children, have been killed by Israeli bombardment and shelling in the Gaza Strip since then, according to the Health Ministry. It has not kept a tally of the missing or additional deaths from preventable disease, malnutrition and other consequences of war.

Israel stated it does not have an official policy limiting aid. The government insists it has facilitated the entry of aid by land, air and sea, but some human rights organizations and the top prosecutor for the International Criminal Court allege Israeli leaders are using starvation as a weapon of war against civilians in Gaza, allegations they deny.

This appears to have “temporarily alleviated” conditions in north Gaza, the I.P.C. study says, adding that the “available evidence does not indicate that famine is currently occurring.”

In early May, Israeli tanks effectively shut the Gaza border in Rafah with Egypt, where aid and fuel had been entering. Fighting between the Israeli military and Hamas in Rafah also made it dangerous and difficult for aid organizations to reach their warehouses there or collect aid that entered Gaza at the southern crossing with Israel. Aid groups toldNPR that they were rationing supplies of food so that more people could get hot meals.

Humanitarian workers have been killed in Israel and aid groups say their trucks are being stolen. The Israeli military has targeted local clans and police securing the aid.

The vice president of global policy and advocacy at the organization said people are resorting to desperate measures to keep their kids alive, like boiling weeds, eating animal feed and exchanging clothes for money.

Project Hope, a Gaza City doctor who treats a sick boy in Gaza City, an emergency room for malnutrition, hunger and starvation

Project Hope is run by a doctor in Gaza City who treated a boy last week for avastion and ureteral injury. A staffer had to physically run to a nearby hospital to get the last box they had, he says.

He said that he sees patients who are just skin and bones as a sign of severe malnutrition. It is impossible for patients to recover from infections and injuries if they don’t eat any food for several months.

There isn’t enough drinking water in Gaza. He says that a young girl was admitted to the operating room and begged for water.

A proposed tax hike meant to pay off the country’s huge foreign debt caused violent protests in the capital yesterday. Police opened fire with live ammunition and tear gas at young protesters as they attempted to storm the Parliament building in Nairobi. Some people were dead and others were injured.

“The Veepstakes” in the U.S. During the First Election: The Case of Alexander Gershkovich

​​​​​​Meanwhile, in the U.S.: The Veepstakes is on. The first presidential debate may be top of mind now, but the Republican National Convention is less than three weeks away. Donald Trump doesn’t have time to pick a running mate. He is treating the search like his old days of hosting “The Apprentice”, and vice president nominee hopefuls are rushing to make their final sales pitch.

Gershkovich’s trial started behind closed doors in the Russian city of Yekaterinburg. Gershkovich faces up to 20 years in prison if the court finds him guilty of espionage charges that he, his employer and the U.S. government strongly deny.

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