Has Israel manufactured a famine in Gaza?

Middle East Eye looks at the medical and legal dimensions of famine and starvation.

The markets are empty. The make-shift hospitals are bare. The water is contaminated. The aid trucks are nowhere in sight. Gaza is being starved, and rights groups say, deliberately. At least 57 children have starved to death since 2 March, and 71,000 children under the age of five are expected to be acutely malnourished over the next eleven months. In the ongoing war on Gaza, which genocide scholars and international human rights organisations have unanimously called a "genocide" against the Palestinian people, Israel also has been accused of implementing a policy of starvation in Gaza. The crisis has escalated to such an extent over the past 11 weeks since Israel blocked aid to the enclave - opening it just this week in a dehumanising manner - that nearly every single person in Gaza is facing prolonged food shortages, with close to a half a million people (or around one in five) are currently experiencing "catastrophic situation of hunger, acute malnutrition, starvation, illness and death". In its assessment in mid-May, the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), a global initiative aimed at enhancing food security and nutrition analysis to inform decisions, wrote that over the next six months, the entirety of Gaza is expected to face what is referred to by experts as "crisis, or worse acute food insecurity".

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