What is a famine? A medical expert explains

(22 Aug 2025)
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Archive: Gaza City, Gaza Strip – 16 August 2025
1. Various charity workers filling pots of displaced people with cooked food

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St. Louis – 22 August 2025
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Mark Manary, Washington University in St. Louis:
"Famine is an official designation that in a population, a threshold has been reached where 15% or more of the people’s body weight or body size is remarkably low, remarkably abnormal. And so it points to something widespread going on in a population, and it’s going on Gaza right now."

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Archive: Gaza City, Gaza Strip – 16 August 2025
3. Various of displaced women carrying their empty pots and waiting for food
4. Various of charity’s workers filling pots of displaced people with cooked food

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St. Louis – 22 August 2025
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Mark Manary, Washington University in St. Louis:
"When you don’t have enough to eat, which is pretty basic language for the matter, your body first uses up its stores, right? So we all hold about three days worth of sugar that we store, and we all have about several months worth of fat that we store."

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Archive: Gaza City, Gaza Strip – 23 July 2025
6. Various of two-year-old Yazan Abu Ful being held by his mother, Naima Abu Ful, showing his emaciated body

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St. Louis – 22 August 2025
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Mark Manary, Washington University in St. Louis:
"And then the body has to continue to find sustenance from within. So it starts eating its muscle. So, it starts, you know, even further depleting any kind of fat."

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ARCHIVE: Gaza City, Gaza Strip – 2 August 2025
8. Various of Mosab al-Dibs (age 14), lying on bed at Shifa hospital (his mother next to him, al-Dibs was healthy before suffering a heavy head wound on May 7 when an Israeli airstrike hit next to his family’s tent. Since then he has been in the hospital largely paralyzed, only partly conscious and severely malnourished because the facility no longer has the supplies to feed him, according to his doctor)

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St. Louis – 22 August 2025
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Mark Manary, Washington University in St. Louis:
"Then the vulnerability continues to get more and more, and then eventually the person will pass away. You know, that heart that’s so weak and thin, sometimes it’s gonna give out–infections in particular, very susceptible to infections."

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ARCHIVE: Gaza City, Gaza Strip – 21 August 2025
10. Pallets of aid being airdropped over Gaza City

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St. Louis – 22 August 2025
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Mark Manary, Washington University in St. Louis:
"So when somebody is malnourished, how can they recover? Well, the answer is fairly simple. It’s being provided therapeutic food. Therapeutic food is food that is completely replete with all the nutrients that are needed in ample quantities."

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ARCHIVE: Gaza City, Gaza Strip – 21 August 2025
12. Pallets of aid being airdropped over Gaza City

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St. Louis – 22 August 2025
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Mark Manary, Washington University in St. Louis:
"If you had enough food in Gaza today for everyone to eat as much as they wanted, it would be three months before everyone would be recovered. But a week’s worth of therapeutic food is life-saving."

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Archive: Gaza City, Gaza Strip – 16 August 2025
14. Various charity workers filling pots of displaced people with cooked food
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What is famine?

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