“Approximately 1.84 million Gazans suffer from high levels of acute food insecurity corresponding to level 3 or higher” of the scale which has 5 (3: crisis, 4: emergency, 5: disaster). A figure which should rise to 1.95 million between November and April, or more than 90% of the population, according to UN projections for the period November 2024-April 2025. Among them, 345,000 will be faced with a situation “catastrophic”or 16% of the population.
While the food aid arriving this summer had helped to improve the situation, the virtual cessation of convoys in September reversed the trend, deplores the IPC. In light of this report, FAO Deputy Director-General Beth Bechdol called for “immediately restore humanitarian access to deliver essential food aid and seeds in time for the October-December winter planting season”. The release of this report comes after the United States and UN officials warned Israel against “starvation policy” which would be orchestrated in Gaza to “make a weapon of war”which Israel rejected.
