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Dangerous levels of acute hunger affected a staggering 281.6 million people last year - the fifth year in a row that food insecurity has worsened - heightening growing fears of famine and "widespread death" from Gaza to Sudan and beyond, UN agencies warned on Wednesday. According to the latest Global Report on Food Crises, more than one in five people in 59 countries faced acute food insecurity in 2023, compared with around just one in 10 in 48 countries in 2016. "When we talk abo...

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Several Western countries have suspended the funding over unproven allegations by Israel against the agency.

Israel’s war in Gaza has brought famine with “such incredible speed,” the United Nations’ emergency relief chief told CNN on Monday, as he warned that hundreds of thousands of Palestinians are starving in the besieged enclave.

United Nations agencies have warned that the risk of famine is looming in Gaza, and more people are exposed to deadly disease outbreaks in the war-torn Palestinian enclave.

Gaza Health Ministry said on Monday that the bodies of 132 people killed in Israeli strikes were brought to Gaza hospitals raising the death toll to 24,100. | World News

And the Gaza Media Office says over 800,000 Palestinians in northern Gaza are facing death due to Israel’s policy of starvation.

The Palestinian health ministry says 150 have been killed in the past 24 hours in the besieged strip.

Israel has said it will stop automatic visas for United Nations workers as it suspects some of them to be “complicit partners” with the terrorist group Hamas.