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		<title>Israel has starved 113 Palestinians to death in Gaza.. How does aid get into Gaza &#8211; and why isn&#8217;t enough getting through?.. Video</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Hospitals in the besieged Gaza Strip have recorded two more deaths “due to famine and malnutrition” in the past 24 hours, according to the territory’s Health Ministry, bringing the total to at least 113.</p>
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<p class="has-white-color has-vivid-red-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-e02436826dd9ae313b2573057e7f0226" style="font-size:17px">Hospitals in the besieged Gaza Strip have recorded two more deaths “due to famine and malnutrition” in the past 24 hours, according to the territory’s Health Ministry, bringing the total to at least 113.</p>



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<p>Israel has recalled its ceasefire negotiating team for “consultations” after Hamas submitted a response to a proposed Gaza ceasefire deal to mediators.</p>



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<p>The response reportedly includes amendments to conditions around the entry of aid, areas from which the Israeli army should withdraw, and guarantees on securing a permanent end to the war.</p>



<p>Israel’s war on Gaza has killed at least 59,587 people and wounded 143,498. An estimated 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the October 7, 2023 attacks, and more than 200 were taken captive.</p>



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<p>For aid to arrive into the hands of Palestinians in Gaza, it is not straightforward.</p>



<p>Since the war began in October 2023, some aid has been able to pass into the territory through a handful of militarised crossing points.</p>



<p>But even if lorries carrying supplies can get in, without the cooperation of Israeli authorities they can&rsquo;t get much further.</p>



<p>Aid groups say there is no shortage in the supply of food, but accuse Israel of obstructing it and making it virtually impossible for humanitarian assistance to reach millions of people who desperately need it.</p>



<p>Instead, truckloads sit untouched in warehouses, external while not far away, aid groups say, Gazans face mass starvation.</p>



<p>Israel denies this, and blames UN agencies and « the collection bottleneck » as the main obstacle for supplies getting into Gaza.</p>



<p>Earlier this year, the Israeli military blockaded the entry of aid trucks into Gaza for 11 weeks, it said, to pressure Hamas into releasing hostages.</p>



<p>Not longer after that, Israel and the US backed a controversial organisation called the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) to bypass the UN and act as the main distributor of aid in Gaza.</p>



<p>The GHF, unlike the UN, uses private security contractors to distribute supplies from sites in Israeli military zones. It&rsquo;s a system Israel and the US say is necessary to stop Hamas from stealing aid.</p>



<p>But aid organisations have also roundly condemned the scheme, which the UN says has seen more than 1,000 Palestinians killed by Israeli forces while trying to collect food.</p>



<p>And according to the World Health Organization, a large proportion of the population of Gaza is starving.</p>



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		<title>Famine: what is it, where will it strike and how should the world respond?</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>The world is in the grip of an unprecedented hunger crisis. A toxic combination of climate crisis, conflict and Covid had already placed some of the poorest countries under enormous strain, but Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has sent grain and fuel prices soaring.</p>
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<p class="has-medium-font-size">The world is in the grip of an unprecedented hunger crisis. A toxic combination of climate crisis, conflict and Covid had already placed some of the poorest countries under enormous strain, but Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has sent grain and fuel prices soaring.</p>



<p>“We thought it couldn’t get any worse,” said David Beasley, director of the UN World Food Programme (WFP), in June. “But this war has been devastating.”</p>



<p>Globally, the UN says, the number of people living with hunger, or chronic undernourishment, rose to as many as 828 million last year, an increase of about 150 million since the outbreak of the pandemic. There is a “real danger”, warned Beasley on Wednesday, that the ripple effect of Ukraine will cause it to rise even further in the months ahead – and that some countries will be pushed into famine as a result.</p>



<p>“The result will be global destabilisation, starvation, and mass migration on an unprecedented scale,” he warned. “We have to act today to avert this looming catastrophe.”</p>



<p class="has-white-color has-black-background-color has-text-color has-background has-medium-font-size">A toxic combination of climate emergency, conflict and Covid is pushing some of the poorest countries into an acute hunger crisis</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>What is famine?</strong></h2>



<p>In 2004, the UN’s <a href="https://www.fao.org/europeanunion/eu-projects/ipc/en/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Food and Agriculture Organization</a> developed the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), as a <a href="https://www.ipcinfo.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">tracking tool for global hunger</a>. It has become the primary means of identifying famine, with a sliding scale from phase 1 (no or minimal food insecurity) to phase 5 (catastrophe or famine).</p>



<p>It <a href="https://www.ipcinfo.org/famine-facts/en/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">defines a famine</a> as an extreme deprivation of food where “starvation, death, destitution and extremely critical levels of acute malnutrition are or will likely be evident”.</p>



<p>To meet the criteria, an area will have at least 20% of households facing an extreme lack of food, at least 30% of children suffering from acute malnutrition, and two people for every 10,000 a day dying “due to outright starvation or to the interaction of malnutrition and disease”.</p>



<p>If a number of households are experiencing famine conditions but not at the required level (20% of the population), or if local malnutrition or mortality levels have not reached the required thresholds for famine, those households will be put in the IPC phase-5 catastrophe category, even if the area as a whole is not in phase-5 famine.</p>



<p>Another term – used by UN agencies, aid organisations and the media – is “famine likely”. It is useful for situations in which, for instance, humanitarian access is limited. This applies to places where, although available information indicates that famine is likely to be unfolding, there is not enough evidence to meet the criteria for a full classification.</p>


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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Where is famine most likely to occur</strong><strong>?</strong></h2>



<p>According to the IPC, no area meets the criteria for a phase-5 famine classification. However, several countries – Ethiopia, Somalia, South Sudan, Yemen and Afghanistan – have <a href="https://www.ipcinfo.org/ipc-country-analysis/population-tracking-tool/en/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">sections of their population</a> living with phase-5 catastrophic levels of hunger.</p>



<p>In Ethiopia last year, 352,000 people facing this level of hunger were living in the north, but the reality of the situation is unclear due to access issues.</p>



<p>In its <a href="https://www.ipcinfo.org/ipc-country-analysis/details-map/en/c/1155662/?iso3=SOM" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">June to September projection</a> for Somalia, the IPC said there was a reasonable chance of famine unfolding in eight areas of the country in the event of widespread crop failure, food prices continuing to rise and humanitarian aid not being scaled up. About 213,000 people are expected to face catastrophic conditions. In certain districts the signs are bad: in the southern district of Baidoa, for example, home to tens of thousands of displaced people, the acute malnutrition threshold for famine has been breached.</p>


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<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>If famine does occur, what&nbsp;</strong><strong>is the likely human toll?</strong></h2>



<p>It is impossible to say for certain, but history has some lessons. The 1992 famine in Somalia is thought to have killed about 220,000 people, a total surpassed between 2010 and 2012, when another famine claimed nearly 260,000 lives, half of them children. The consensus was that the relief organisations had been too slow to act; by the time a famine had been declared, more than 100,000 people had already died.</p>



<p>The last time a famine was declared – in parts of South Sudan in 2017 – the official famine period lasted just three months and the death toll is thought to have been lower (there are no official figures available), partly as a result of a generous humanitarian response. In 2017-18, as part of that effort, UK government aid to the wider region totalled £861m. In 2021-22, according to <a href="https://www.oxfam.org.uk/media/press-releases/uk-guilty-of-dereliction-of-duty-in-turning-its-back-on-tens-of-millions-struggling-to-survive-global-hunger-crisis-oxfam/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Oxfam</a>, aid to the four east African countries most affected by hunger (Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia and South Sudan) was just £288m – two-thirds of the figure from the previous crisis in 2017-18..</p>



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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Il faudra encore attendre. Malgré les nombreuses alertes sur un risque imminent de famine dans la région éthiopienne du Tigré, les quinze membres du Conseil de sécurité de l’ONU ont pour le moment échoué à se mettre d’accord sur une réaction commune.</p>
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<p class="has-vivid-cyan-blue-color has-text-color has-medium-font-size"><strong>Il faudra encore attendre. Malgré les nombreuses alertes sur un risque imminent de famine dans la région éthiopienne du Tigré, les quinze membres du Conseil de sécurité de l’ONU ont pour le moment échoué à se mettre d’accord sur une réaction commune.</strong></p>



<p>Sept mois après le début de l’opération militaire lancée par Addis-Abeba dans cette province accusée de rébellion, la situation humanitaire y est pourtant catastrophique. L’ONU estime que 91 % de la population du Tigré va avoir besoin d’aide alimentaire. Et selon le Bureau de la coordination des affaires humanitaires des Nations unies (OCHA), il s’agit de la situation la plus grave depuis la famine qui avait fait 250 000 victimes en Somalie il y a dix ans. <em>« C’est la pire situation d’insécurité alimentaire que j’ai vue depuis des années », </em>confirme Mark Lowcock, le patron de l’OCHA<em>.</em></p>



<p>Au cours des derniers mois, le responsable onusien a envoyé quatre notes d’alerte au Conseil de sécurité, comme cela est fait&nbsp;<em>«&nbsp;à chaque fois que nous pensons qu’un conflit pourrait amener à une situation d’insécurité alimentaire ou à la famine&nbsp;»,</em><strong></strong>explique-t-il. Les trois premières alertes avaient poussé les quinze membres à se réunir – à huis clos – mais la dernière, envoyée il y a deux semaines, n’a eu aucun effet.</p>



<h3 class="has-vivid-cyan-blue-color has-text-color wp-block-heading">Violences sexuelles</h3>



<p>L’Irlande et le Niger, chargés du sujet «&nbsp;conflits et malnutrition&nbsp;» au sein du Conseil de sécurité, ont proposé une réunion ouverte, mais ils se heurtent à d’importants blocages, y compris pour faire une simple déclaration commune, en particulier de la part de la Russie.&nbsp;<em>«&nbsp;Les liens entre Moscou et Addis-Abeba se sont beaucoup resserrés ces derniers mois,&nbsp;</em>expliqueAshish Pradhan, de l’International Crisis Group (ICG).&nbsp;<em>Les deux partis au pouvoir ont par exemple signé un accord afin de travailler ensemble plus étroitement.&nbsp;»</em></p>



<p><em>« Les diplomates russes ont commencé à répandre l’idée que Mark Lowcock outrepassait ses fonctions, que ce qu’il disait n’avait rien à voir avec des affaires humanitaires »,</em> raconte un observateur. La semaine dernière, pour justifier leur blocage, ils ont même suggéré que le patron de l’OCHA, qui quittera ses fonctions le 18 juin, <em>« voulait faire un dernier coup d’éclat avant son départ ».</em></p>



<p class="has-white-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-background-color has-text-color has-background has-medium-font-size">Les quinze membres ont pour le moment échoué à se mettre d’accord sur une réaction commune face au désastre humanitaire.</p>



<p>Les partisans d’une ferme condamnation de la situation au Tigré avaient espéré que la dernière réunion du Conseil de sécurité sur ce dossier, qui a eu lieu à huis clos le 15&nbsp;avril, ferait pencher la balance. Mark Lowcock y avait dénoncé la famine et les violences sexuelles utilisées comme armes de guerre.&nbsp;<em>«&nbsp;Près d’un quart des rapports reçus par les agences</em>[de l’ONU]&nbsp;<em>font état de viols collectifs</em>, avait décrit le responsable onusien.&nbsp;<em>Dans certains cas, les femmes ont été violées à plusieurs reprises pendant plusieurs jours.</em>&nbsp;<em>Des filles âgées d’à peine 8&nbsp;ans sont prises pour cible.&nbsp;»</em></p>



<p>Quelques minutes après, l’ambassadrice américaine à l’ONU, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, avait à son tour fait une plaidoirie passionnée. Faisant remarquer que le Conseil de sécurité parvenait à s’entendre sur la Birmanie et non sur le Tigré, elle avait pris l’assistance à témoin, demandant si<em>&nbsp;«&nbsp;les vies africaines ne comptaient pas autant&nbsp;»</em>. Une simple déclaration,&nbsp;<em>a minima</em>, avait été rendue publique le 22 avril, dans laquelle les membres du Conseil se disaient&nbsp;<em>« préoccupés »</em>.</p>



<h3 class="has-vivid-cyan-blue-color has-text-color wp-block-heading">Endiguer la crise</h3>



<p>Toutefois, les récits de violences ont semble-t-il poussé certains pays,&nbsp;<em>a priori</em>&nbsp;réticents à toute interférence du Conseil de sécurité, à faire évoluer leur position. C’est le cas du groupe de pays surnommé «&nbsp;A3 + 1&nbsp;» (Niger, Afrique du Sud, Tunisie et Saint-Vincent-et-les-Grenadines), qui seraient plus enclins à accepter une déclaration commune forte. Mais la position russe, elle, n’a pas changé.</p>



<p>Il est pourtant impératif que les quinze membres se saisissent à nouveau du dossier, martèle Mark Lowcock&nbsp;:&nbsp;<em>«&nbsp;Le Conseil doit appeler publiquement à cesser les hostilités et à faciliter le travail des agences humanitaires</em>.<em>&nbsp;C’est important, car ses demandes sont écoutées par les dirigeants du monde entier. Nous devons empêcher une tragédie humanitaire.&nbsp;»&nbsp;</em>Le chef de l’action humanitaire des Nations unies cherche à rassembler 850&nbsp;millions de dollars (environ 700&nbsp;millions d’euros) pour endiguer la crise.</p>



<p>A 11&nbsp;000&nbsp;km de New York, le spectre de la famine ramène l’Ethiopie à la tragédie vécue par le pays pendant les années 1980&nbsp;: plus de 1&nbsp;million de personnes étaient mortes.&nbsp;<em>«&nbsp;Je n’ai jamais oublié certaines des choses que j’ai vues à ce moment-là,</em>&nbsp;confie Mark Lowcock.<em>&nbsp;Nous devons empêcher une nouvelle tragédie, car c’est une crise humanitaire qui aura des conséquences sur le Tigré, mais aussi sur tout le pays et l’ensemble de la région, pour longtemps.&nbsp;»</em></p>



<p>Les discussions du Conseil de sécurité sur le Tigré pourraient reprendre <em>« dans le courant de la semaine »,</em> selon une source diplomatique. Si les diplomates russes lèvent leur blocage.</p>



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<p class="has-vivid-cyan-blue-color has-text-color has-medium-font-size"><strong>Par Carrie Nooten(New York, Nations unies, correspondante) &#8211; <a href="https://www.lemonde.fr/afrique/article/2021/06/07/ethiopie-menace-de-famine-le-tigre-peine-a-se-frayer-un-chemin-au-conseil-de-securite-de-l-onu_6083262_3212.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Le Monde</a></strong></p>
<p>L’article <a href="https://worldopinions.net/ethiopie-menace-de-famine-le-tigre-peine-a-se-frayer-un-chemin-au-conseil-de-securite-de-lonu/3972/">Ethiopie : menacé de famine, le Tigré peine à se frayer un chemin au Conseil de sécurité de l’ONU</a> est apparu en premier sur <a href="https://worldopinions.net">World Opinion | Alternative Média</a>.</p>
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