{"id":364347,"date":"2025-08-22T09:56:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T09:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/364347\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T09:56:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T09:56:11","slug":"famine-confirmed-in-gaza-city-for-first-time-un-backed-report-says-live-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/364347\/","title":{"rendered":"Famine confirmed in Gaza City for first time, UN-backed report says – live updates"},"content":{"rendered":"

Famine should ‘shame the world to do better’, UN emergency relief coordinator sayspublished at 10:54 British Summer Time<\/p>\n

10:54 BST<\/p>\n

Imogen Foulkes<\/strong>
Reporting from Geneva<\/p>\n

\"UNImage source, AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n

The UN\u2019s emergency relief coordinator says the famine in Gaza should “shame the world to do better”.<\/p>\n

Speaking in Geneva, Tom Fletcher says the famine “must spur the world to more urgent action”. <\/p>\n

And he makes a direct plea to the Israeli government: “My ask, my plea, my demand to Prime Minister Netanyahu and anyone who can reach him: enough, ceasefire.”<\/p>\n

“Open the crossings, north and south, all of them. Let us get food and other supplies in unimpeded and at the massive scale required. End the retribution.”<\/p>\n

He says this is a famine – the first ever declared in the Middle East – that could have been prevented, and blamed “systemic obstruction” for preventing the UN getting supplies in.<\/p>\n

Asked what he would say to Israel\u2019s government, or members of the Israeli public, who continue to deny that famine is taking place, despite today\u2019s report confirming it, Fletcher says: “I would say to them, as I say to all of you, please read this report. Don’t just listen to me.”<\/p>\n

“Read the report cover to cover, read it again, and be moved to action.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Famine should ‘shame the world to do better’, UN emergency relief coordinator sayspublished at 10:54 British Summer Time…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":364348,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13,12,14],"class_list":{"0":"post-364347","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115071823872216937","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=364347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/364348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}