A UN-backed food security initiative says worst-case scenario of famine unfolding in Gaza [SOUND]

# Two out of three famine thresholds have been reached in Gaza, plummeting food consumption and acute malnutrition. This is according to the latest Integrated Food Security Phase Classification, a United Nations-backed initiative. According to the IPC, at least 16 children under five have died from hunger-related causes since mid-July in Gaza, World Food Programme’s Ross Smith says more than 20-thousand children have been treated for acute malnutrition since April, and more than three-thousand severely malnourished: