The Gaza Strip is still at risk of famine more than a year into the Israel-Hamas war , even as the number of people facing the most extreme level of hunger has declined in recent months, the international authority on hunger crises said Thursday.
The findings come after the United States warned Israel that it might cut off military aid if its ally does not do more to address the humanitarian crisis in Gaza. Hundreds of thousands of people there are displaced from their homes and packed into squalid tent camps and schools-turned-shelters.
In recent weeks Israel has once again ordered the evacuation of the northern third of Gaza, and it launched another major military operation there. It allowed no food to enter the north for roughly the first two weeks of October before resuming shipments on Monday.
In a statement announcing a second shipment on Wednesday, the military said it will continue to act in accordance with international law "to facilitate and ease the entry of humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip."
86 of Gaza's population faces crisis-level hunger or worse
