Tel Aviv — The entire population of the war-torn Gaza Strip — some 2.3 million people — is now living through “severe levels of acute food insecurity,” US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Tuesday. He spoke amid increasing signs that the US government is losing patience with Israel over its handling of the war with Hamas.
“According to the most respected measure of these things, 100% of the population in Gaza is at severe levels of acute food insecurity. That’s the first time an entire population has been so classified,” said Blinken during an official visit to the