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Food insecurity experts say Gaza is now in a state of famine.

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It's Tuesday, July the 29th.

I'm Azhar Sukri for the Wall Street Journal.

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Famine is now unfolding in Gaza. That's the most dire assessment of the enclave's deepening hunger crisis since the start of the war. An interim report

released this morning by the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification, or IPC, found at least

16 children under five have died of hunger-related causes since mid-July. Journal correspondent Margarita Stankati says it's the first time the UN-supported group has

described the food crisis in such terms.

Food security experts are saying that all areas of the Gaza Strip are experiencing rapidly

deteriorating food and security.

So when it comes to extreme food shortage,

most households are saying that they regularly are not having food to eat of any kind

and that often people go to bed hungry. Acute childhood malnutrition is getting much worse

across the enclave and particularly in the north, and

hunger-related deaths are increasing. So these are the three criteria used to measure famine

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