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<article data-history-node-id="426434" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/only-73-aid-trucks-entered-gaza-officials-call-airdrops-farce" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/only-73-aid-trucks-entered-gaza-officials-call-airdrops-farce" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Only 73 aid trucks entered Gaza as officials call airdrops a ‘farce’</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p data-end="1185" data-start="907">Gaza’s Government Media Office has condemned the international response to the worsening humanitarian disaster, saying that just 73 aid trucks made it into the besieged territory on Tuesday, far below the minimum 600 trucks per day that humanitarian groups say are urgently required.</p> <p data-end="1330" data-start="1187">In a statement the media office described the flow of aid as completely inadequate to address the famine gripping the Strip.</p> <p data-end="1479" data-start="1332">Officials also condemned Israeli airdrops of humanitarian supplies, claiming they were dropped into active combat zones under military supervision.</p> <p data-end="1726" data-start="1481">“We witnessed three airdrops, which combined did not equal the load of two truckloads of aid,” the statement read. “What is happening is a farce in which the international community is complicit through false promises or misleading information.”</p> <p data-end="1872" data-is-last-node data-is-only-node data-start="1728">The office called on world powers to stop offering symbolic gestures and instead ensure full, safe, and sustained access for life-saving relief.</p> </div> </div> </article>

<article data-history-node-id="426428" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/time-famine-declared-gaza-it-will-already-be-too-late-report" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/time-famine-declared-gaza-it-will-already-be-too-late-report" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">'By the time famine is declared in Gaza, it will already be too late': Report</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p data-end="1054" data-start="863">A global hunger watchdog has warned that famine is already unfolding across the Gaza Strip, as conditions deteriorate and international pressure mounts on Israel to allow more humanitarian aid in.</p> <p data-end="1354" data-start="1056">“The worst-case scenario of famine is currently playing out in the Gaza Strip,” said the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) in an alert released on Tuesday, Reuters reported. “Mounting evidence shows that widespread starvation, malnutrition, and disease are driving a rise in hunger-related deaths.”</p> <p data-end="1785" data-start="1356">While the IPC has not formally declared a famine, it confirmed it would begin an immediate assessment.</p> <p data-end="1785" data-start="1356">The organisation, made up of UN agencies, humanitarian bodies and aid groups, defines famine based on extreme hunger indicators, including at least 20 percent of the population facing critical food shortages, acute malnutrition in one-third of children, and two deaths per 10,000 people per day from hunger or related illnesses.</p> <p data-end="2000" data-start="1787">According to the IPC, recent data shows that food consumption thresholds consistent with famine have already been breached across most of Gaza. Acute malnutrition rates have also spiked, particularly in Gaza City.</p> <p data-end="2227" data-start="2002">“Immediate action must be taken to end the hostilities and allow unimpeded, large-scale, life-saving humanitarian response,” the IPC warned. “This is the only path to stopping further deaths and catastrophic human suffering.”</p> <p data-end="2609" data-is-last-node data-is-only-node data-start="2229">David Miliband, president of the International Rescue Committee, said in a separate statement that waiting for an official famine declaration risks repeating past tragedies. “By the time that famine was declared in Somalia in 2011, 250,000 people, half of them children under five, had already died,” he said. “By the time famine is declared [in Gaza], it will already be too late.”</p> </div> </div> </article>