Gaza is ‘hungriest place on Earth’ with all its people at risk of famine, says UN

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Gaza is the hungriest place on Earth", according to the UN, which has warned that the Palestinian territory's entire population is at risk of famine.

Jens Laerke, a spokesperson for the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, said the territory was the only defined area - a country or defined territory within a country - where you have the entire population at risk of famine. One hundred per cent of the population at risk of famine," he said on Friday.