Israel’s leader has denounced suggestions that areas in Gaza are facing famine after six months of war.
Netanyahu “rejected the claims by international organisations about famine in Gaza”, his office said.
A United Nations-backed report last month said northern Gaza could be hit by famine any time between mid-March and May, and more than 70 percent of Gaza’s 2.3 million population face “catastrophic hunger”.
Last week, Samantha Power, the director of the US Agency for International Development, said famine was already occurring in northern Gaza.
The UN High Commissioner for Refugees defines famine as a situation where a substantial proportion of the population of an area is unable to access adequate food, which results in widespread acute malnutrition and loss of life by starvation and disease.
Source: AlJazeera
