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A UN -backed rating said that the Gaza population of about 2.1 million Palestinians was exposed to a “critical risk” of starvation and faced “extreme levels of nutritional uncertainty” as the Israeli blockade of humanitarian aid continues.
The latest report of the classification of the Integrated Food Security Phase (IPC) is said to have had a “great deterioration” since October 2024, but concluded that hunger is not currently happening.
The two -month termination of the fire between Israel and Hamas “led to a temporary withdrawal” in Gaza, the report said, but the renewed hostilities and the Israeli blockade for help – on the beginning of March – “turned” any improvements.
Currently, about 244,000 people have experienced the most severe or “catastrophic” levels of nutritional uncertainty, she said, and have called for emergency action to prevent the “increasingly” increasing “risk of hunger.
Israel renewed its military operations in Gaza in mid -March and prevented food, medicines and other help from entering Gaza for 70 days, saying he puts pressure on Hamas to release his other hostages.
There is an international condemnation of the blockade, including the UN, which said there are supplies of the border crossings of the gas, ready to enter if Israel allows. Assistance agencies have said the blockade can be a war crime and is a starvation policy.
The IPC rating, published on Monday, found half a million people – or one in five – were starving in Gaza. It says nearly 71,000 children under the age of five are expected to be acutely malnourished in the next 11 months to April 2026.
He added: “Many households resort to extreme measures to find food, including begging and gathering garbage for sale to buy something to eat.”
The report states that the current situation, compared to its analysis of October 2024, is “a major deterioration in one of the most serious crises of food and nutrition in the world, led by conflict and characterized by untold human suffering.”
His analysis found that 1.95 million people, or 93% of the gas population, live over high levels of acute nutritional uncertainty, including 244,000 who experience “catastrophic” levels.
IPC – a global initiative from UN agencies, help groups and governments – is the main mechanism that the international community uses to conclude whether hunger is happening.
Israeli officials have denied that there is a hungry crisis in the gas due to the amount of assistance that entered during the termination of the fire.
It comes as Hamas said he would release Israeli-American hostage, Edan Alexander as part of the effort to reach an agreement to end the fire. The group said it was also intended to facilitate the deal to enter Gaza’s humanitarian aid.
The Israeli Prime Minister’s service said it did not commit to end the fire, but only on a “safe corridor” to release the G -n Alexander.
US President Donald Trump arrives in the Middle East on Tuesday, and Israel has promised to expand his military offensive against Hamas if a deal was achieved by the end of his visit.
Israeli officials have said Plans for their extended offensive Include the seizure of the entire territory for an indefinite period of time, the forced displacement of the Palestinians to the south, and the assistance of assistance with private companies Despite the UN’s opposition and his humanitarian partnersWho say they will not cooperate because it seems that “weapon” help.
In his report, the IPC said the aid distribution plans were evaluated at “highly insufficient” and it was expected that large parts of the population would “straighten significant problems with access to the proposed distribution sites”.
The war was triggered by the attacks led by Hamas against southern Israel on October 7, 2023, killing about 1,200 people and over 250 hostages. About 59 hostages remain in gas, up to 24 of which are thought to be alive.
Israel’s military campaign was killed in 52,862 people in Gaza, according to Hamas Health Ministry.