Experts: Northern Gaza spared famine, but 'sustained risk' remains

A child picks food from the bottom of a pot at a U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees school in the Jabalia camp for Palestinian refugees in the northern Gaza Strip on June 17, 2024. A truck carrying humanitarian aid for the Gaza Strip drives at the Kerem Shalom border crossing between southern Israel and Gaza, on June 17, 2024.

The situation in the Gaza Strip remains catastrophic and there is a high and sustained risk of famine across all of Gaza as long as the Israel-Hamas war continues and humanitarian access is restricted, a United Nations-backed food security report concluded Tuesday.