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A U.N.-backed panel of experts on starvation has declared that Gaza is in the grip of famine . The announcement comes after nearly two years of war and Israeli restrictions on aid entering the territory, and as Israel prepares to launch a new offensive on Gaza City. The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification raised its classification of conditions in Gaza to Phase 5, the highest level of its food insecurity scale, which the IPC says is "characterized by starvation, destitution and death." The IPC report says half a million people are facing that level of starvatio

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