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UN official warns that famine in northern Gaza is already 'full-blown'
By Associated Press
May 04, 2024 9:21 am

WASHINGTON, D.C.: A top UN official said Friday that hard-hit northern Gaza was now in 'full-blown famine' after more than six months of war between Israel and Hamas and severe Israeli restrictions on food deliveries to the Palestinian territory.

Cindy McCain, the American director of the UN World Food Program, became the most prominent international official so far to declare that trapped civilians in the most cut-off part of Gaza had gone over the brink into famine.

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