Worst-case scenario of famine unfolding in Gaza, says UN-backed group

联合国支持的组织表示,加沙地带正在发生饥荒的最坏情况。

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2025-07-29

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The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), a global hunger monitoring system, has warned that “the worst-case scenario of famine” is currently playing out in the Gaza Strip. It comes as the territory’s health ministry says 60,000 Palestinians have been killed in the enclave since Israel's offensive began. Also: floods hit Beijing; the Ukrainian hackers targeting Russia’s Aeroflot airline; farmers in the US and Mexico caught in a water crisis driven by a decades-old treaty; a gunman kills four in New York; a shaky ceasefire holds along the border with Thailand and Cambodia; the former Colombia president who’s been convicted of witness tampering; and can Greenland’s Inuit majority achieve independence? The Global News Podcast brings you the breaking news you need to hear, as it happens. Listen for the latest headlines and current affairs from around the world. Politics, economics, climate, business, technology, health – we cover it all with expert analysis and insight. Get the news that matters, delivered twice a day on weekdays and daily at weekends, plus special bonus episodes reacting to urgent breaking stories. Follow or subscribe now and never miss a moment. Get in touch: globalpodcast@bbc.co.uk
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  • I'm Jackie Leonard and at 13 hours GMT on Tuesday the 29th of July these are our main stories.

  • A UN backed review has warned that famine is playing out in Gaza despite the limited increase in aid deliveries.

  • Israel says life in the Palestinian territory is tough but lies are being told.

  • A ceasefire along the Thai-Cambodian border appears to be holding after a shaky start and the Russian national airline Aeroflot has cancelled 50 more flights today after Ukrainian hackers said they'd attacked its IT systems.

  • Also in this podcast...

  • For the last three years I've only been able to plant half my farm

  • because I don't have enough irrigation water.

  • We feel that Mexico has not been living up to their part of the treaty.

  • We'll hear from farmers in the US and Mexico caught in a water crisis driven by a decades-old treaty.

  • The worst case scenario of famine is currently playing out in the Gaza Strip.

  • That's the assessment of a group of UN-backed international agencies after months of an Israeli blockade,

  • which has only recently been eased.

  • One woman in Gaza told us how hard it is to get aid.

  • Where are we supposed to go?

  • The Israelis say they don't want to distribute the aid because Hamas might steal it.

  • And sometimes they allow people to go and get the aid themselves,

  • but they end up fighting each other to get it.

  • That's not to mention the bombs that are killing them anyway.

  • Every day, more than 500 people are martyred from Rafah to the north while trying to reach the aid.