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Not moved/no consensus, 24 April 2024, to Food insecurity in Gaza during the Israel-Hamas war, see discussion.
Not moved, 25 June 2024, to Starvation of Palestinians during the Israel-Hamas war, see discussion.

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Mention of "Project HOPE" should link to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_HOPE page as that is the NGO working in Gaza and cited in the Al Jazeera article listed as a source. Cridgway007 (talk) 14:19, 20 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Done. Thanks. Rainsage (talk) 22:22, 20 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Un

ins: "Since the beginning of the war, the UN has been publishing reports and updates regarding the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip, which paint a difficult picture of a severe nutritional crisis and even of a famine spreading in the Gaza Strip. These reports are based on missing numerical data coming from sources in Gaza, which do not reflect all the aid entering the Strip. The UN cites these data without verification and substantiation, in the absence of transparency and without any reference to the data published by Israel and its humanitarian efforts, while completely ignoring the actions of Hamas and its responsibility for the situation in Gaza." https://www.inss.org.il/he/publication/un-hunger-reports/

For example, the UN data relied on data collected by UNRWA, which did not include aid delivered by sea, air or through the Erez crossing or through other aid organizations.

In general, there is excessive detail in relation to the position of UN officials in the preamble. As far as the conflict is concerned, the UN is not historically neutral and this is evident, for example, in a disproportionate number of decisions initiated by the UN Human Rights Council regarding the conflict versus other issues (sometimes simply because one of the countries is a member of it) it is affected by its internal politics. Also, this is a war that lasted a year and the level of hunger in the Strip can change over time, depending on the level of aid provided and the intensity of the fighting. 77.127.184.99 (talk) 23:56, 16 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

[[User:דור פוזנר 77.127.184.99 (talk) 23:57, 16 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

New UN FRC/IPC report ECR edit req

The latest IPC/FRC report is now partially released (its summary) and updates the # facing catastrophic hunger to 133,000. This should be changed from 495,000 in info box which was based on the same source (also "near-famine hunger" is not a thing - catastrophic hunger IS the term for "famine-level hunger" when it's measured by food insecurity surveys of individual families instead of population measures like malnutrition and mortality rates (which are substantially below famine thresholds)). Also this new report should probably be discussed when fully released but that's outside scope of this extended confirmed protect edit request. Please note the source also gives a projected number for catastrophic hunger in November - next April, but the IPC itself seems to now only give the current number on its website's mobile version. Also because its last 3 projections were off by multiple fold (e.g. 495,000 was June's projection for the current period of this report), combined with the current number being written first in all their communciations, I think the current number (133,000) is most appropriate for info box (or can give both but note the latter is projection).

https://www.ipcinfo.org/ipc-country-analysis/details-map/en/c/1157985/?iso3=PSE

https://www.ipcinfo.org/ipc-country-analysis/details-map/en/c/1157986/?iso3=PSE - for malnutrition statement but not necessary for edit. Scienceturtle1 (talk) 13:54, 22 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Page should be renamed

There is starvation in the Gaza Strip but famine is highly contested. The reported death toll is inconsistent with famine and the Famine Review Committee said it was not reasonable to assess there was famine.

That doesn't mean there isn't a humanitarian disaster; there is. But it is short of famine, which has a technical meaning. TazmanianTurnip (talk) 23:21, 26 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Request update number of deaths in infobox

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In the "Gaza Genocide" article, the infobox entry for deaths due to starvation has been updated to 62,000, supported by sources that are already referenced in the "Gaza Famine" article ([344][345][346]). I propose updating the famine-related death count in the infobox of this article to reflect the same figure for consistency. 2001:9E8:994:4500:B5D5:F759:E581:21D0 (talk) 11:50, 5 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]