Since the UN declared famine on August 22, as a result of the Israeli blockade of the coastal enclave, 92 people, including 16 children, have died from this cause, a medical source said, quoted by the official news agency Wafa.

This Thursday, writer and university professor Omar Harb died from this cause, the Shehab news agency reported.

At a press conference, the director general of the Ministry of Health in the Strip, Munir al-Barash, criticized the world’s indifference to the UN declaration on famine.

The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification, which classifies the severity of food security situations using a scale, noted that more than half a million people in the Strip are facing catastrophic conditions.

Recently, the UN warned that the lives of Gazans are at risk after “almost two years of conflict, systematic displacement, and severe restrictions on humanitarian access, compounded by recurring disruptions and obstacles to access to food, water, medical assistance, support for agriculture, livestock, and fisheries, and the collapse of health and sanitation systems.”

According to the United Nations Children’s Fund, the number of households reporting very severe hunger doubled across the territory in July compared to May and more than tripled in Gaza City.

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