Gaza City officially in famine
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Israel is pushing back on a U.N.-backed report declaring famine in parts of the Gaza Strip. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called the report an 'outright lie.'
According to the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), a system that measures food insecurity and malnutrition, 32 percent of the population of Gaza City and the surrounding areas “are facing catastrophic conditions characterized by starvation,
Famine has been determined in Gaza Governorate, where Gaza City is located, according to a warning issued Friday by the IPC.