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Palestinian children wait to collect food rations from a charity kitchen in Deir Al Balah, amid the continuing war in Gaza. Bloomberg
Palestinian children wait to collect food rations from a charity kitchen in Deir Al Balah, amid the continuing war in Gaza. Bloomberg
What is a famine? How the UN measures lack of food in Gaza and elsewhere
Five-stage scale is used to assess level of food insecurity and starvation