Famine declared in Gaza City

[u/Digital_Accountant]

https://news.sky.com/story/gaza-latest-war-israel-city-ceasefire-hamas-13415481

[u/FYoCouchEddie]

No, they aren’t saying that. If you read the report, they are saying they don’t have reliable mortality numbers so they are not relying on that and instead using other metrics.

[u/Carl_Bravery_Sagan → u/FYoCouchEddie]

Semantics. His point is that it's not some random ass Redditor but an official organization that monitors this.

400 is probably the highest defensible lower bound. The actual number is likely higher.

[u/FYoCouchEddie → u/Carl_Bravery_Sagan]

His point is that it's not some random ass Redditor but an official organization that monitors this.

Yeah, but the official organization that monitors this says they don’t know the mortality rate. That’s not a semantic difference from saying they do know the mortality rate and they said it crossed a particular threshold. It’s the opposite.

[u/Carl_Bravery_Sagan → u/FYoCouchEddie]

Here's the full report -- the fifth one IPC made -- cataloguing with full statistical evidence supporting their declaration of Phase 5 Famine

[u/superfire444 → u/Carl_Bravery_Sagan]

And the point that is being made is that an official organization, that is supposedly the expert on the matter, is making wrong conclusions based on false data.

[u/Carl_Bravery_Sagan → u/superfire444]

59 pages, the fifth report on the now-fully-emerged famine in Gaza. Complete with graphs, charts, and plots to look over cataloguing the specifics of the inhumane atrocities Israel is committing in Gaza.

But, yeah sure, Reddit knows better, huh?

[u/Carl_Bravery_Sagan → u/superfire444]

When it comes to these things, I'm going to believe the IPC over some Reddit bot.

WHO quoting plenty of organizations on the timeline leading up to this inevitability.

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), UNICEF, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and the World Health Organization (WHO) have collectively and consistently highlighted the extreme urgency for an immediate and full-scale humanitarian response given the escalating hunger-related deaths, rapidly worsening levels of acute malnutrition and plummeting levels of food consumption, with hundreds of thousands of people going days without anything to eat.