New York - Agencies:
"Nearly 133,000 people are facing catastrophic food insecurity in Gaza," said Ryan Paulson, Director of the Office of Emergencies and Resilience at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
"Men, women, boys and girls are literally starving as the conflict continues, and humanitarian organizations are prevented from delivering aid to those in need," Paulson added in a speech to the UN Security Council.
Paulson referred to the Famine Review Committee's warning that there is a high probability that famine is occurring now or is imminent in areas in the northern Gaza Strip. He stressed that the agricultural food systems in the Gaza Strip have collapsed and local food production has been destroyed.
He pointed out that Gaza before October 7, 2023 was largely self-sufficient in its production of vegetables, eggs, milk, poultry and fish, and that the local agricultural sector also produced a lot of red meat and fruits that were consumed inside the Strip.
He said that local production of these foods made the nutritional outcomes of Gazan children similar to those of their peers in middle-income countries, despite high levels of food insecurity, while the widespread destruction of agricultural food systems exacerbated the humanitarian crisis and hunger and increased the risk of famine.
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