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Famine is now unfolding in Gaza.
That's the most dire assessment of the enclave's deepening hunger crisis since the start of the war.
An interim report released this morning by the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification,
or IPC,
found at least 16 children under five have died of hunger-related causes since mid-July.
Journal correspondent Margarita Stankati says it's the first time the UN-supported group has described the food crisis in such terms.
Food security experts are saying that all areas of the Gaza Strip are experiencing rapidly deteriorating food insecurity.
So when it comes to extreme food shortage,
most households are saying that they regularly are not having food to eat of any kind and that often people go to bed hungry.
acute childhood malnutrition is getting much worse across the enclave and particularly in the north.