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Gaza mother blames famine for halving daughter’s weight

A mother has told the BBC her five-year-old daughter has lost almost half of her body weight due to the famine in Gaza City.

Lamia Hijjeh, whose family has been displaced several times during the war, has lost 8.5kg and cannot walk, according to her mother Rida.

On Friday, the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) raised its classification to Phase 5, the highest and worst level of its acute food insecurity scale.

It says famine is confirmed in the Gaza Governorate, which includes Gaza City and its surrounding area, with “catastrophic conditions” projected to expand to Deir al-Balah and Khan Younis by the end of September.

Israel has denied there was starvation in Gaza and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has described the IPC report as an “outright lie”.

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