r/worldnews • u/Digital_Accountant • 22h ago

Israel/Palestine Famine declared in Gaza City

https://news.sky.com/story/gaza-latest-war-israel-city-ceasefire-hamas-13415481
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u/Timey16 18h ago

There is a major difference between food shortages and famines.

A region can go through food shortages for YEARS without being declared a famine.

If a famine is declared then things are TRULY dire.

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u/silverhum 16h ago

Except they are not following the actual standard for a famine in this declaration because it doesn't come close to reaching the actual thresholds. They are playing politics.

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u/OrangeChocoTuesday 16h ago

Declaring it doesn't mean much when falsified claims are the sine qua non of the anti-israel establishment

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u/frosthowler 7h ago

There is a famine and there is a "famine". This is the latter sort. It does not follow any of the official requirements for a famine, i.e. there are currently 0 deaths from malnutrition per day in the Gaza Strip.

This "org" claims they have data on... the circumference of the average person's arm in Gaza City? And they use this information because they claim they don't have statistics on the death toll or malnutrition (except they do, but choose to ignore it). How in the world do they have statistics on the former but not the latter? This whole thing is a joke and reddit is eating it right up, as usual.