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Experts: Hunger crisis in Gaza

Published: 30 July 2025

The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) warned yesterday of a worst-case scenario famine unfolding in the Gaza strip, as access to food and other essential items and services has become highly limited due to the ongoing conflict and displacement.

These °Ä¿Í¾º²Ê experts are available to comment:

Rex Brynen, Full Professor, Department of Political Science, has expertise on Palestinian politics, aid to the Palestinian territories, complex humanitarian emergencies and peace operations, urban warfare, and humanitarian health capacity-building more broadly.

rex.brynen [at] mcgill.ca (English)

Jennifer Turnbull, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics and Co-Director, Global Child Health Program, can discuss the health impacts of malnutrition and starvation, particularly among children in crisis settings.

jennifer.turnbull [at] mcgill.ca (English)

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