Overview

• Cindy McCain, director of the World Food Programme, warns that children in Gaza are dying due to the ongoing Israel-Hamas conflict, emphasizing the urgent need for aid worker access.
• Over 13,000 children have been killed in Gaza since October 7, with acute malnutrition affecting one in three children under age 2 in northern Gaza.
• McCain stresses the importance of opening more border crossings to deliver food and resources to 1.1 million people in Gaza for three months.
• While focusing on Gaza's famine threat, McCain also calls on the world not to forget other countries facing food crises, such as Sudan, DRC Congo, Somalia, Yemen, and Haiti.
• Nearly 18 million people in Sudan are facing acute food insecurity, highlighting the global scale of the hunger crisis.