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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 51³Ô¹ÏÍøexperts 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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