Ah the classic misdirect.
You only have to read the article to find that there is hunger & starvation in gaza though.
And no international body has officially declared a famine in Gaza. The international body we have for this sort of thing is the IPC (International Food Security Phase Classicification) and FEWS NET (Famine Early Warning Systems Network). They basically on a scale of 1-5 (where 5 is famine) place Gaza on 4.
Here's the stages
Stage 1)
Normal condition
Stage 2)
Communiteis are stressed but still eating enough, households strgugle to afford essentials
Stage 3)
Crisis. People have trouble finding food skip meals, many turn to short term survival tactics that undermine long term survivability (selling of livestock ect)
Stage 4)
Emergency. Food gaps widen and people resort to "really extreme forms of coping" (liquidating all assets or eating seeds needed for future planting.) Excess deaths and acute malnutrition rises.
Stage 5)
Famine. Three criteria must be met for this stage to be reached.
-20% of households face catastrophe (extreme lack of food)
-30% of children under 5 suffers from acute malnutrition or wasting
-2 out of 10,000 (at least) die each day from non-trauma causes. Hunger usually kills not through starvation but by weakening the immune system so much a common cold can kill you.
FEWS place 44% of the population (925,000) in Emergency and 12% are in Catastrophe (244,000) or experiencing famine.
Here's the kicker. FEWS and IPC cannot officially declare famine because they do not have access to Gaza. Why? Guess why. Israel doesn't allow it.
WFP (world food programme) director Jean-Martin Bauer says as follows
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In conflict zones, collecting reliable data, espcially on non-trauma mortality often proves difficult. This means lack of data can hinder an official classification of famine. By the time famine is declared, people are already dying.
Why haven't they placed Gaza in 5 it's because they have no access to Gaza because israel denies it.