Israel/Palestine

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/world/middleeast/famine-gaza-city-israel.html

"The group said in a report published on Friday that a combination of factors had tipped Gaza into famine: the intensifying conflict, stringent Israeli restrictions on aid, the collapse of health care, water and sanitation systems, the destruction of local agriculture and the growing number of times people had been forced to flee for new shelters.

...The report said that famine in Gaza could be “halted and reversed” because it was “entirely man-made.”“The time for debate and hesitation has passed,” it added. “Starvation is present and is rapidly spreading.”Even a short delay in flooding Gaza with aid would “exponentially” increase preventable deaths, it said.

...A determination of famine from the hunger monitoring group is rare. Since its founding in 2004, the group has confirmed only three other famines: in Somalia in 2011, South Sudan in 2017 and war-torn Sudan last year. More than 100,000 people died in Somalia before the official declaration of famine arrived...."

“You become an animal in search of food,” he said. “When I go home, I think to myself, ‘What did I just do?’”