AP explains as food shortage in Gaza worsens

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For months, U.N. officials, aid groups and experts have warned that Palestinians in the Gaza Strip are on the brink of famine without formally declaring one.

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00:00United Nations officials, aid agencies and experts have been warning for months that

00:14Palestinians in Gaza are on the brink of famine.

00:17The United Nations says that the hunger crisis is at astonishingly new levels of desperation.

00:23Yet despite the amount of concern, no formal famine declaration has been made.

00:28Here's why.

00:29To make a famine declaration, certain thresholds need to be met, such as a certain percentage

00:34of households need to be facing extreme food insecurity, a percentage of children need

00:39to be facing malnutrition or wasting, and a percentage of people need to be dying daily

00:45from starvation or malnutrition mixed with disease.

00:58The war in Gaza has made access incredibly hard.

01:10It's hard to collect that data and information.

01:13Health officials also say that it's hard to say that someone died from hunger.

01:18There's no formal way to say someone died from starvation instead of disease.

01:22aid agencies and Palestinians say the situation is absolutely dire.

01:35People in Gaza say they have nothing to eat.

01:46They say that once a famine declaration is made, it's already too late.

01:52They say the reactionary Are you going to

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