On August 22, the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) released a report that confirmed famine is confirmed in Gaza Governorate and projected to expand to Deir al-Balah and Khan Younis Governorates by the end of September. This report comes after multiple warnings of widespread malnutrition and hunger from international aid agencies on the ground.
Beckie Ryan, CARE Response Director in Gaza, spoke to a reporter from the Washington Post about the conditions of women and children that she met at CARE’s health clinic in Deir al Balah.
Excerpt from the article:
She recalled watching hunger skyrocket. “The decline we saw was really shocking,” she told The Washington Post in an interview this month. Her Palestinian colleagues grew thinner by the day as they skipped meals, she said.
About 19 percent of pregnant women and children who came into CARE’s nutrition clinic in Deir al-Balah several months ago were malnourished; by the time Ryan left Gaza, that proportion had risen to 40 percent, she said — and the organization’s stockpiles of therapeutic food were nearly depleted.
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