“Gaza has “the highest number of people facing catastrophic hunger ever recorded by the Integrated Food Security Classification system — anywhere, anytime.”
António Guterres
Secretary-General of the United Nations. Claim dated 18 Mar 2024.
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What PolitiFact found
A March report found that 677,000 Gazans currently face "catastrophic" acute food insecurity. We found no instances in which more people have been classified that way since the IPC system was created in 2004.
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In short
António Guterres (Secretary-General of the United Nations) made this claim around 18 March 2024. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 26 March 2024, 8 days later. Its rating was “True”.
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