{"id":32351,"date":"2024-06-27T07:57:36","date_gmt":"2024-06-27T11:57:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/israel-hamas-war-in-gaza-live-updates-2\/27\/06\/2024\/"},"modified":"2024-06-27T07:57:36","modified_gmt":"2024-06-27T11:57:36","slug":"israel-hamas-war-in-gaza-live-updates-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/israel-hamas-war-in-gaza-live-updates-2\/27\/06\/2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel-Hamas War in Gaza: Live Updates"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A panel of global hunger experts warned this week that the Gaza Strip was on the brink of famine, but to many Gazans, it feels as if it is already here.<\/p>\n

\u201cI swear our stomachs are decaying,\u201d said Eman Abu Jaljum, 23, whose family in northern Gaza has been surviving off canned peas and beans.<\/p>\n

In a report issued on Tuesday, the experts said that almost half a million people in the territory faced starvation. They stopped short of declaring a famine, a designation that depends on a variety of criteria being met.<\/p>\n

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But in a Gaza devastated by almost nine months of war between Israel and Hamas, that can seem like a distinction without a difference.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are living in a famine that is more extreme than ever before,\u201d Ms. Abu Jaljum said.<\/p>\n

Each day brings a new struggle to find food. Fresh vegetables are scarce and meat scarcer still. And at those food markets that are still functioning, the shortages have sent prices skyrocketing, including for staples like flour and rice.<\/p>\n

The last time that Iyad al-Sapti, a 30-year-old father of six in Gaza City, was able to get a bag of flour was nearly two months ago \u2014 and that required waiting in line for three hours, he said. A single bell pepper, he said, now costs more than $2.<\/p>\n

\u201cWho could possibly afford that?\u201d he asked.<\/p>\n

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Children receiving food on Monday in Jabaliya, in northern Gaza, this month.<\/span>Credit…<\/span>Omar Al-Qattaa\/Agence France-Presse \u2014 Getty Images<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

One of his daughters, Mr. al-Sapti said, asked for eggs, but there were none to be found. \u201cI would just tell her, \u2018I swear, I wish I can provide you with eggs,\u2019\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

While warning of a high risk of famine, the report on Tuesday from the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification, which is known as the I.P.C., noted that the amount of food reaching northern Gaza had increased in recent months. The change coincides with the Israeli reopening of border crossings \u2014 under intense international pressure \u2014 to allow more aid to enter.<\/p>\n

An I.P.C. designation of famine depends on a combination of factors<\/a>, among them the percentages of households facing extreme lack of food, children suffering from acute malnutrition and deaths from starvation or malnutrition.<\/p>\n

But many people may die before all the criteria are met.<\/p>\n

Since the I.P.C. standards were developed in 2004, they have been used to identify only two famines: in Somalia in 2011, and in South Sudan in 2017. In Somalia, more than 100,000 people died before famine was officially declared.<\/p>\n

As of Sunday, the health authorities in Gaza reported, 34 people had died from malnutrition, the majority children.<\/p>\n

\u201cBefore some simple things were available,\u201d Ms. Abu Jaljum said, \u201cbut now there\u2019s barely anything.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Jana Ayad, a malnourished Palestinian girl, at the International Medical Corps field hospital in Deir al Balah, in central Gaza, last week.<\/span>Credit…<\/span>Mohammed Salem\/Reuters<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

Although the fighting in Gaza is now largely concentrated in the south, food shortages have been reported across the enclave.<\/p>\n

In Khan Younis, the southern Gaza city where Nizar Hammad, 30, has been sheltering with his family in a tent, finding food can be less a challenge than cooking it.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe biggest suffering is preparing the food itself, because you do not have cooking gas,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Firewood is hard to find, and expensive. But Mr. Hammad said that bread, flour, pasta, rice and lentils were available and relatively affordable in his area, and that he could buy two bags of flour for about $2.60. Chicken, beef, fruit and vegetables were another matter.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe problem now is the lack of cash, work and income,\u201d Mr. Hammad said.<\/p>\n

In the north, bread has become more available as some bakeries in Gaza City reopen their doors, said Mr. al-Sapti. His family has mostly been eating bread with the herb mix za\u2019atar. \u201cThe bakeries reopening have helped us a lot,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

But Mr. al-Sapti worries that the bakeries may soon run out of fuel.<\/p>\n

\u201cI really hope they stay open,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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A panel of global hunger experts warned this week that the Gaza Strip was on the brink of famine, but to many