Famine Officially Declared In GazaA United Nations-backed body has confirmed there's a famine in Gaza City and the surrounding areas. The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification comes to that conclusion when at least 20% of people suffer extreme food shortages. One in three children are acutely malnourished and two out of every 10,000 are dying daily from starvation and disease. Tom Fletcher, the UN’s under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs, says it's a preventable famine:"My ask, my plea, my demand to Prime Minister Netanyahu: enough! "Let us get food and other supplies in."