Good evening I'm John Yang.

Almost from the very beginning of the Israel-Hamass War, seven months ago next week,

aid groups have been warning that Gaza was a humanitarian crisis in the making.

And now Cindy McCain, head of the UN's World Food Program,

tells NBC's Meet the Press.

The situation has reached a perilous phase.

What I can explain to you is that there is famine, full-blown famine in the north and it's moving its way south.

I just want to be very clear because what you're saying is significant and I believe it's the first time we've heard it.

You're saying there is full blown famine.

Yes.

In Northern Gaza.

Yes, I am.

And there has not been an official declaration that there is failing, but you are saying that based

on what you've seen.

Yes, it is.

Based on what we've seen and what we've experienced on the ground, yes.

Which is...

It's horror. It's, you know, it's, it's so hard to look at and it's so

hard to hear also. In southern Gaza today, an Israeli air strike sent plumes of smoke

into the skies.

Reports said six people were killed in two different locations.

As all this was going on, efforts to negotiate a deal between Israel and Hamas for a

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