For the first time, famine has officially been declared in northern Gaza.
Israel is accused by human rights organizations of using food as a weapon of war.
Will this declaration change the trajectory of its offensive in Gaza and the military's plan to seize Gaza City?
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A UN-backed panel of experts on starvation has declared that northern Gaza is in a full-blown famine,