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It is an organization that is authoritative. The main humanitarian and political actors are based on its data to identify the severity of a given situation. “The worst scenario of famine is underway in Gaza”, judges the integrated framework of classification of food security (IPC in English), an initiative linked to the UN. “This is not an alert but a call for action,” said Tuesday before the press in Geneva Ross Smith, of the World Food Program (PAM). Obviously, it is a disaster that is happening before our eyes. ”
Faced with the severity of the situation, and the deterioration of all the indicators, the IPC has decided to advance the presentation of its results a little. According to its very strict criteria, it is now established that “the famine thresholds have been reached in most of the Gaza Strip”. For the first time, the “acute malnutrition” threshold, just below, was also crossed in the city of Gaza.