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Even as aid continues to flow into Gaza following Donald Trump’s ceasefire deal, one expert is questioning the veracity of claims by the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) that famine conditions took hold in Gaza this summer — and the organizational ties of the agency.

“What makes famine different from just hunger or deprivation is that it’s lethal,” David Adesnik, vice president of research at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies told Fox News Digital. “Using the IPC definition — that famine claims two lives per day per 10,000 people — the famine in Gaza directorate should by now have resulted in about 9,000 deaths from hunger or hunger-related disease,” he explained. “They didn’t have data showing that mortality rate had

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