One in five households in Gaza go whole days without food, draft UN report says
by Jason Burke International security correspondent from World news | The Guardian on (#6NR4N)
Latest snapshot also finds half of households have had to sell or swap clothes for food, despite pressure on Israel to improve aid deliveries
More than half of households in Gaza have had to sell or swap their clothes to be able to buy food, the UN is to report, as a high risk of famine remains across the whole of the territory after a new round of violence in recent weeks.
The latest Special Snapshot" of Gaza from the UN's hunger monitoring system, the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), that will be published on Tuesday also says that one in five of the population - more than 495,000 people - are now facing catastrophic levels of acute food insecurity" involving an extreme lack of food, starvation, and exhaustion".
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