GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — The world 's leading authority on food crises said Friday the Gaza Strip 's largest city is gripped by famine, and that it 's likely to spread across the territory without a ceasefire and an end to restrictions on humanitarian aid. The Integrated Food...
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Five starving children at a Gaza City hospital were wasting away, and nothing the doctors tried was working. The basic treatments for malnourishment that could save them had run out under Israel 's blockade. The alternatives were ineffective. One after...
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — The Gaza Strip will likely fall into famine if Israel doesn 't lift its blockade and stop its military campaign, food security experts said in a stark warning on Monday. Nearly half a million Palestinians are facing possible starvation, living in "catastrophic"...
U.N. humanitarian chief Tom Fletcher speaks during an interview in Cairo, Egypt, Sunday, Feb. 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil) CAIRO (AP) — Famine has been mostly averted in Gaza as a surge of aid enters the territory during a fragile ceasefire, the United Nations humanitarian chief said...
FAMINE IN GAZA – Palestinian children collect water in jerrycans at a camp for displaced people in Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip, Thursday, Dec. 12, 2024. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana) UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The deputy executive director of the U.N. World Food Program has been on...
KYIV, Ukraine -- President Volodymyr Zelensky vowed on Saturday that Ukraine would continue to resist Russian attacks, as the country marked the 90th anniversary of the Holodomor famine that affected millions of Ukrainians under Soviet leader Joseph Stalin. This handout picture taken and released...
NAIROBI, Kenya -- Four consecutive failed rain seasons combined with a lethargic response to appeal for humanitarian support could push millions of people in Ethiopia, Kenya, and Somalia to the brink of starvation, the United Nations agencies, and food security experts said in a joint statement on...
MOGADISHU, Somalia -- Somalia's newly elected President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud used his inauguration speech on Thursday to appeal for international help to stave off a famine that threatens his drought-stricken country. Aid agencies have warned of an approaching famine as cases of severe...
ADEN, Yemen -- The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) warned on Friday that millions of Yemeni people are at risk of famine as a result of the country's years-long military conflict and sharp deterioration of its economy, calling for urgent action. "Children in Yemen are starving not because...
PARIS, France – World hunger rose steeply in 2020, with six times more people living in "famine-like conditions" than in 2019, rights group Oxfam said Friday. The coronavirus pandemic has exacerbated existing crises sparked by conflict and climate change -- the "three lethal Cs" -- according...
