Monitoring Food Security in Food Crisis Countries with Conflict Situations – A Joint FAO/WFP update for Security Council, November 2022 – Issue No. 11 (Excerpts)

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• One-third of the Palestinian population, or 1.8 million people, were acutely food insecure in early 2021 according to the latest Socioeconomic and Food Security Survey assessment (GNAFC and FSIN, 2022). Data for 2022 or trends were not available at the time of publication.

• Protracted conflict, in combination with economic stagnation, continues to pose serious challenges to the food security and nutrition situation. In Gaza, violence escalated in August 2022, and led to the destruction of buildings and displacement of several hundred families (WFP, 2022a). This has exacerbated pre-existing vulnerabilities and increased already high poverty, food insecurity and unemployment levels. Intermittent clashes and escalating violence in the West Bank, resulted in civilian casualties and deaths, and negatively impacted Palestinians’ livelihoods (WFP, 2022b). The conflict led to very high humanitarian access constraints in the first half of 2022.

• The Palestine Authority was already facing a fiscal crisis (UNCTAD, 2022) and the economic conditions worsened due to the war in Ukraine, leading to a further erosion of the purchasing power of Palestinians and disruption of their access to food and other essential commodities
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