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A worst-case famine scenario is unfolding across the Gaza Strip.

That's the latest finding from the integrated food security phase classification or IPC.

The UN-affiliated organization tracks food security worldwide.

Still, it stops short of a formal declaration

of famine in the region. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Trump have

splintered on the issue of starvation. There is no policy of starvation in Gaza, and there is no

starvation in Gaza. Some of those kids are, that's real starvation stuff. I see it. And you can't fake that.

Elsewhere in the world, most of Haiti's population is experiencing critical levels of food

insecurity. That's when people don't have access to enough safe and nutritious food for

normal growth and development.

And in Sudan, famine grips tens of millions of people.

The starvation in Gaza is reawakening global attention to hunger crises unfolding around the world.

Today, we examine how humanitarian aid factors into the equation.

After the break, we start our conversation with someone who's

witnessed the effects of Israel's mass starvation of Gaza up close. Mark Brunner is an American

emergency physician. He volunteered at a hospital in the Gaza Strip for two weeks in June. He

joins us from Eugene, Oregon and tells us about his experience. I'm Jen White. You're listening

to the 1A podcast. Stay with us. We've got a lot to get to.

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