: to die from lack of enough food : to starve to death
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So people are now facing the choice between staying in the camp to die from hunger, or risk their lives by moving through Darfur areas besieged by the RSF, Suliman said.—Gabe Joselow, NBC News, 11 Feb. 2025 March 18, 2024 Integrated Food Security Phase Classification, Famine Review Committee: Gaza Strip, March 2024, March 18, 2024
CNN, Newborns die of hunger and mothers struggle to feed their children as Israel’s siege condemns Gazans to starvation, March 7, 2024
CNN, Anesthetics, crutches, dates.—Madison Czopek, Austin American-Statesman, 28 Mar. 2024 Related article Newborns die of hunger and mothers struggle to feed their children as Israel’s siege condemns Gazans to starvation
Food shortages are reportedly the worst in northern Gaza, where Israel concentrated its military offensive in the early days of the war.—Kareem Khadder, CNN, 15 Mar. 2024 If famine takes hold, the number of Gazans who die of hunger or disease could outstrip the Israel-Hamas war’s already breathtaking number of civilian deaths.—Hardin Lang, Foreign Affairs, 1 Mar. 2024 Anyone who does not die in the raids will die of hunger and thirst.—Edith Olmsted, The New Republic, 17 Oct. 2023 Many of her relatives who stayed would die of hunger.—James Marson, WSJ, 8 Sep. 2023 Continue waiting for the victory and die of hunger?—Dominique Soguel, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Mar. 2023 As many as 131,000 children could die of hunger if no action is taken, according to a U.N. report.—Washington Post, 14 Apr. 2022
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