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A man searches through charred debris in a room at the Asma school run by the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), in the Shati camp for Palestinian refugees west of Gaza City, in the aftermath of overnight Israeli bombardment on June 25, 2024 amid the ongoing conflict in the Palestinian territory between Israel and Hamas. (Photo by Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP)
Almost half a million people are still experiencing "catastrophic" hunger in Gaza, a United Nations-backed assessment found on Tuesday.
Warnings from March of imminent famine in the north of the Palestinian territory have not come to pass, but the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) partnership said 495,000 people -- around 22 percent of the Gaza population, according to the UN -- are still facing "catastrophic levels of acute food insecurity".
