Oxfam: “In Gaza a mass of mass is killing hundreds of people”

In Gaza an unprecedented famine with dozens of deaths per day. It is the alarm launched by Oxfam and international civil society organizations Following the new report on the integrated classification of the IPC (Integrated Food Securti Phase ranking) food security phases of the United Nations which detects how the nutritional indicators have reached the worst levels since the beginning of the conflict.

To collapse was the consumption of food, the first key indicator of the famine, with the data showing how More than one person out of three spend whole days without eating. It is estimated that more than 500 thousand people, a quarter of the population of Gaza, is experiencing conditions similar to famine, with levels of malnutrition between children under five years quadrupled in two months.

«The new alarm on the ongoing famine, caused entirely by the murderous siege of Israel, must push the international community finally to act to stop what is happening. Air -aid launches or short humanitarian breaks are not even remotely sufficient to avoid the mass massacre that we are facing. A decisive diplomatic action, including all the restrictive measures necessary for Israel, is needed to reach an immediate and permanent fire and allow the entry of all the aid necessary to save millions of lives “, he explains Paolo Pezzati, spokesperson for the humanitarian crises of Oxfam Italia.

The situation in Gaza, speculation on the prices of food and climatic chaos leave 673 million people in the world today who suffer from chronic hunger, in a context where the crisis in Africa is added to the famine in the strip where one person in five lives in conditions of food insecurity. THEThe food system is thus called broken by Oxfam with the consequence that it will be impossible to hit the hunger zero objective by 2030, As defined by the UN agenda, because at that date still more than half a billion people will live in conditions of food insecurity.

The gap between rich and poor countries of the world continues to expand: «The moral and civilization pact between rich and poor countries is collapsing. Global hunger marks a small overall retreat from 8.5% to 8.2%, while the situation in Western Asia worsens and in the Middle East and above all on the African continent, the true epicenter of the crisis. – while the main donors in the world, including the G7 countries, are pushing for a cutting of humanitarian aid and development of 28% by 2026 and only the World Food Program will see its resources of 40% next year, about 2.6 billion people cannot afford a healthy diet. They are not just numbers, it means preventing a third of humanity from being in mind and future dignified “, he comments Francesco Petrelli, spokesman and policy advisor for Oxfam Italia food security.

To the lethal mix of wars is added the inflation of the prices of food goods came to 30 percent in poor countries. “The one we face It is not a crisis caused by the scarcity of resources but by their increasingly unequal distribution fueled by increasingly out of control conflicts, by the climatic crisis, by wrong policies and speculative phenomena. – continues Petrelli – Only in 2024 did the wealth of global billionaires grew by 2 thousand billion dollars, while poverty in the world has decreased very little. Yet hunger in poor countries persists, not by chance, but because it is functional. While the fields flood and the crops are destroyed by the drought or conflicts in progress, the aids are cut and few large companies in the agri -food sector profit from the disaster “.

To attend a change of course it is necessary, as Oxfam claims, that cut aids are restored, the speculations in progress through a more regulated and transparent food market are aroused, that donor countries invest in local agricultural systems, on which the survival of the population of the poorest countries depends.