Jehad Alshrafi/GettyFamine is imminent in northern Gaza, and all of its 2.2 million people are facing dire food insecurity, the U.N.’s food agency said Monday.Three hundred thousand people remain trapped in the north, where the U.N. World Food Programme (WFP) said famine is expected to arrive between now and May. The agency said that one in three children in the northern region is now “acutely malnourished or ‘wasted,’” putting them at immediate risk of death.Cindy McCain, director of the WFP, said the famine was man-made and urged Israel to allow humanitarian aid to reach starving refugees within Gaza.Read more at The Daily Beast.
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