"Humanitarian Crisis: Gaza and Haiti Teetering on the Edge of Famine"

Experts warn that famine is imminent in northern Gaza and approaching in Haiti, with hundreds of thousands of people struggling to avoid starvation due to the war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza and the crisis in Haiti caused by criminal gangs attacking the country’s key government institutions. Famine is the top tier of hunger, occurring when 20% of households have an extreme lack of food, 30% of children suffer from acute malnutrition, and death from outright starvation or the interaction of malnutrition and disease is prevalent. Children younger than 5, pregnant and breastfeeding women, the elderly, and people with underlying health conditions are most at risk from malnutrition. If famine is declared, it would focus global attention on the problem, but carries no binding obligations on U.N. members or states.