Christian Aid has warned that many more people in Gaza will die of starvation unless the war is ended soon and aid is allowed in unhindered.
It says that some 269 people have already starved to death in Gaza, including a minimum of 112 children.
The UN-backed Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) declared a famine in Gaza City this week and described the situation as “entirely man-made”.
According to The Telegraph, an IPC report stated: “After 22 months of relentless conflict, over half 1,000,000 people within the Gaza Strip are facing catastrophic conditions, characterised by starvation, destitution and death.”
Israel has refuted the declaration of famine, with its Prime Minister saying, “Israel doesn’t have a policy of starvation.”
For Katie Roxburgh, Christian Aid’s Programme Manager for Israel and the occupied Palestinian territory, IPC’s declaration of famine comes as no surprise.
“The people of Gaza already knew that they were living through a famine,” she said.
“Our colleagues describe the physical pain of hunger after months of surviving on a single small bowl of lentil soup every day.
“They describe members of the family passing out from fatigue and the way malnutrition is causing their hair to fall out in clumps.”
She blamed Israel for the situation and condemned moves to take over Gaza City.
“Israel’s blockade of Gaza is answerable for this suffering and it’s unconscionable that we are actually seeing the beginning of military operations to take over a city within the grip of famine, pushing near 1,000,000 people from their homes and exposing them to immense danger,” she said.
She added, “Our biggest fear is that unless the war in Gaza is quickly delivered to an end, and aid is finally allowed to flood into Gaza unhindered, we’re on the precipice of seeing tons of more unnecessarily perish.”
Christian Aid has launched an appeal and is asking Christians to hitch its #FastforGaza campaign by fasting for twenty-four hours or one other select time frame once per week.
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