Famine Declaration Imminent? Gaza’s Catastrophic Hunger Crisis Escalates
Famine Declaration Imminent? Gaza’s Catastrophic Hunger Crisis Escalates Gaza’s profound hunger crisis continues to worsen, with international organizations signaling the region is perilously close to a formal famine declaration. Despite catastrophic shortages of food, water, and medicine, and alarming reports of widespread starvation, an official declaration remains elusive, prompting questions about the criteria and process involved. Reports from May 2025 indicated that an estimated 925,000 Gazans (44% of the population) were already experiencing ’emergency’ acute food insecurity, with a further…