International Institutions Warn Of Worst Scenario Of Starvation When Death Toll In Gaza Reaches 60,000

Israeli Military in Gaza Strip, Palestine (Source: IDF)

JAKARTA - The international agency warned of the worst scenario of hunger hitting the Gaza Strip quickly, when the death toll from Israeli genocide in the Palestinian enclave broke through 60,000 people.

The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) issued a warning for an increase in hunger-related deaths in the region, stating that access to food and other basic necessities has fallen to an unprecedented low.

"The threshold for hunger has been achieved for food consumption in most of the Gaza Strip," the IPC said in a report, through The National July 29.

"Actions must be taken immediately to enable an unobstructed, large-scale, and life-saving humanitarian response. This is the only way to stop further deaths and the devastating suffering of humans," he added.

The IPC warning of the dire situation in Gaza has been echoed by other humanitarian organizations. International Rescue Committee (IRC) President David Miliband on Tuesday issued a "hard warning" over the deteriorating conditions in the Gaza Strip.

"The images, testimonies, and statistics of Gaza leave no room for any doubt as to what we are."

It is known, the IPC defines hunger as a situation where "at least one in five households is experiencing extreme food shortages and facing hunger and poverty, resulting in a very critical level of acute malnutrition and death".

Its assessment is an important tool used by the international community to identify and address hunger conditions around the world.

More than 3,000 children are experiencing severe malnutrition in Gaza. Hospitals have reported a rapid increase in deaths of children under the age of five from hunger, with at least 16 deaths reported since July 17, according to IPC data.

Separately, Gaza's Ministry of Health announced in a statement Tuesday that the death toll in the Gaza Strip had risen to 60,034 people, most of whom were children and women, since the start of the Israeli aggression on October 7, 2023, quoted from WAFA.

Meanwhile, the number of injured victims has increased to 145,870 people, amid continued airstrikes, artillery strikes, and shootings of residential areas and shelters.