  {"id":309577,"date":"2025-07-29T13:55:30","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T17:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?post_type=document&#038;p=309577"},"modified":"2025-07-30T13:56:19","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T17:56:19","slug":"unrwa-commissioner-general-on-gaza-the-worst-case-scenario-of-famine-is-now-happening-in-gaza","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/unrwa-commissioner-general-on-gaza-the-worst-case-scenario-of-famine-is-now-happening-in-gaza\/","title":{"rendered":"Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµRWA Commissioner-General: The worst case scenario of famine is now happening in Gaza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>29 July 2025<\/p>\n<p><em>From Philippe Lazzarini, the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµRWA Commissioner-General as posted on his official X account (previously known as Twitter)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The worst case scenario of famine is now happening in Gaza according to the leading world experts.<\/p>\n<p>An entirely man-made famine.<\/p>\n<p>The threshold of famine has been reached with widespread starvation and malnutrition across the war-torn enclave including among children.<\/p>\n<p>More than 100 people have died due to hunger in the past few weeks alone.<\/p>\n<p>The only way to reverse this catastrophe is to flood Gaza with a massive scale up of aid.<\/p>\n<p>Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ including Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµRWA have the expertise and resources available.<\/p>\n<p>Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµRWA alone has the equivalent of 6,000 trucks of food and medicine ready to cross into Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>Let us do our work without restrictions, in safety and dignity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; 29 July 2025 From Philippe Lazzarini, the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµRWA Commissioner-General as posted on his official X account (previously known as Twitter) The worst case scenario of famine is now happening in Gaza according to the leading world experts. An entirely man-made famine. The threshold of famine has been reached with widespread starvation and malnutrition across <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/unrwa-commissioner-general-on-gaza-the-worst-case-scenario-of-famine-is-now-happening-in-gaza\/\"> [&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"country":[],"document-category":[6978,1338],"document-source":[1817],"committee-meeting":[],"document-subject":[1769,1945,2005,5200,6870,1745],"entity":[1729],"document-language":[6542],"class_list":["post-309577","document","type-document","status-publish","hentry","document-category-social-media-post","document-category-statement","document-source-united-nations-relief-and-works-agency-for-palestine-refugees-in-the-near-east-unrwa","document-subject-armed-conflict","document-subject-assistance","document-subject-gaza-strip","document-subject-humanitarian-relief","document-subject-hunger","document-subject-refugees-and-displaced-persons","entity-united-nations-system","document-language-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/309577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/document"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/309577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":309663,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/309577\/revisions\/309663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=309577"},{"taxonomy":"document-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-category?post=309577"},{"taxonomy":"document-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-source?post=309577"},{"taxonomy":"committee-meeting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/committee-meeting?post=309577"},{"taxonomy":"document-subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-subject?post=309577"},{"taxonomy":"entity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entity?post=309577"},{"taxonomy":"document-language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-language?post=309577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}