Extension | The international system that measures humanitarian crises declares the famine officially in Gaza City
Por: Joan Cabasses. For the first time, the famine is official in Gaza. The international system supported by the United Nations agencies that calibrates the food situation in the world has declared on Friday the existence of a famine in Ciudad de Gaza and in the rest of municipalities and refugee fields that make up the Gaza Government.
The integrated classification of the phases (in Spanish, CIF) has alerted in a statement that the famine that shakes that territory is “completely caused by man” and that can be slowed and reversed. “The time for the debate and the doubt has been left behind, the famine is present and spreads quickly,” protests the text. “There should be no doubt in anyone’s mind that a large -scale response is necessary. Any delay [en este asunto]even if it is only days, it will result in a totally unacceptable escalation of mortality related to hunger. ”
The CIF investigation requires the arrival of a high fire that allows to stop the spread of the famine towards other parts of the enclave, something that expects to happen “during the next weeks” in deir the Balah (center of the enclave) and Khan Youis (south) if things do not change things on the ground.
The announcement of the CIF arrives just when the Israeli authorities are at the beginning of an offensive with which they intend to expel the million gazaties that are concentrated in Gaza City, in maneuvers that the humanitarian field has warned that would cause catastrophic consequences.
The CIF contemplates the appearance of a famine in the territories where 20% of households suffer extreme food deficiencies, when 30% of children suffer acute malnutrition and when the ratio of deaths caused by hunger exceeds the two adults or the four children a day for every 10,000 inhabitants. It also considers it official when at least two of these criteria are met.
The spokesman of the Foreign Ministry of Israel, Oren Marmorstein, has shared with the country a statement in which he accuses CIF investigation of being “manufactured to measure” to fit with “Hamás’s false campaign” about hunger in the enclave. “There is no famine in Gaza,” says the spokesman.
