evidence: These are the images behind the horrific hunger numbers published today, showing 300,000 people in Gaza's northern governorates face famine in the coming weeks—snapshots of desperation Matthew Hollingworth, World Food Programme (WFP) Country Director ad interim for Palestine, has seen daily during his visit of the conflict-torn strip. "Famine is a reality," says Hollingworth, of the expert analysis known as Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) for acute food insecurity. It finds 1.1 million Gazans are now experiencing catastrophic hunger—the highest level of food insecurity—a number that has doubled in just three months. [...] Almost three-quarters of people experiencing catastrophic hunger are in northern Gaza Strip, where humanitarian access has been severely restricted. The IPC findings project famine will arrive there between now and May.