Sudan is at immediate risk of famine.

2.5 million risk dying of hunger before September, and over 4 million children are at risk of malnutrition.

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Over 280 million people faced acute hunger in 2023, with Gaza suffering the worst famine, according to a UN report.

On World Hunger Day, we look at the countries and regions most affected by food insecurity.

A small community of displaced Palestinians in southern Gaza’s Rafah break their fast in a mass iftar, the evening meal during Ramadan.

The usual celebrations during the Muslim holy month are absent across Palestine’s Gaza amid Israel’s brutal onslaught. Palestinians are facing acute shortages of food and clean water due to Israel obstructing international aid from entering the besieged enclave.

While a scant amount of aid trucks are sustaining the population in Rafah, Israeli authorities have informed UNRWA they will no longer allow lifesaving deliveries to be made to northern Gaza, where Palestinians are now facing catastrophic levels of hunger.

Palestinian authorities say Israel’s decision to bar aid “will deepen the famine and murders through starvation and thirst.”

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With ceasefire talks at a standstill, the hunger and humanitarian crises worsening across the enclave, and no end in sight to the five months of constant Israeli bombardment, the Muslim holy month of Ramadan has arrived in Palestine’s Gaza.

During Ramadan this year, many Palestinians already struggling with hunger are breaking their fast amid the rubble of demolished buildings in Gaza where food shortages – a direct result of the Israeli onslaught – have become more acutely felt with the start of Ramadan.

Even where food is available, there is little beyond canned food, and the prices of already scarce food are too high for many, in contrast to previous years when families would ordinarily break their daily fasts with feasts.

"We made no preparations to welcome Ramadan because we have been fasting for five months now," said Maha, a mother of five, who would normally have decorated her home and stocked her refrigerator with supplies for the evening iftar celebrations, when people break their fast.

Swipe to see the different iftar gatherings in Gaza throughout the years.

According to data compiled by Islamic Relief, this year’s Ramadan will be the toughest ever as more than 600 million people in Muslim-majority countries will mark the holy month without enough food.

A third of these people are already facing severe hunger and malnutrition due to a fatal combination of conflict, climate change and inequality.

According to data compiled by Islamic Relief, this year’s Ramadan will be the toughest ever as more than 600 million people in Muslim-majority countries will mark the holy month without enough food.

A third of these people are already facing severe hunger and malnutrition due to a fatal combination of conflict, climate change and inequality.

In pictures: Hunger grips Palestinians of Gaza as they scramble for food amid harsh Israeli blockade.

These images reveal the urgency of food aid in the tiny enclave
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The United Nations said Israel’s war on Gaza, now approaching its 100th day, has created a dire humanitarian crisis, marking a stain on humanity.

Since October 7, Israel has initiated blockades and has been relentlessly bombarding the besieged Palestinian territory, resulting in the deaths of 23,843 people, the majority of them being women and children, according to Palestinian health officials.

Israel’s actions have led to severe shortages of food, water, medicine and fuel in the blockaded enclave, causing the collapse of the health system.

"The massive death, destruction, displacement, hunger, loss and grief of the last 100 days are staining our shared humanity," the head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, Philippe Lazzarini, said during a visit to Gaza.

Famine, disease and dehydration threaten to create a “triangle of death” in Palestine’s Gaza, warned Ashraf al Qudra, the spokesperson for the Palestinian health ministry in the enclave.

Intentionally creating food insecurity and using starvation as a weapon of war were declared war crimes by the UN Security Council in 2018, but this cruel tactic continues to be employed by Israel to cripple Gaza’s population.

In the past 90 days, Israeli restrictions on food supplies entering besieged Gaza have left almost the entire population facing crisis levels of hunger and starvation, coupled with increasing levels of malnutrition.

Water pipelines in Gaza are controlled by Israel, and even before October 7, more than 97 percent of the enclave’s drinking water was below the minimum health standards for human consumption. As part of its ongoing military campaign, Israel has targeted facilities such as operating stations, water wells, sewage pumps and rainwater pumps, further deepening the water crisis.

Palestinians are being forced to consume contaminated food and water to ensure their survival, leaving hundreds of thousands suffering from diseases and infections amid the collapse of Gaza’s health system.