{"id":171450,"date":"2025-08-26T20:16:43","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T20:16:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=171450"},"modified":"2025-08-26T20:16:43","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T20:16:43","slug":"un-declares-famine-in-gaza-first-ever-in-middle-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=171450","title":{"rendered":"UN declares famine in Gaza, first ever in Middle East"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United Nations on Friday officially declared a famine in Gaza, the first time it has done so in the Middle East, with experts warning 500,000 people face &#8220;catastrophic&#8221; hunger.Top UN officials put the blame squarely on Israel, accusing it of &#8220;systematic obstruction&#8221; of aid deliveries to the war-ravaged Palestinian territory &#8212; sparking a sharp response.Israel&#8217;s foreign ministry said the declaration that famine is now present in and around Gaza City was &#8220;based on Hamas lies laundered through organisations with vested interests&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.al-monitor.com\/originals\/2025\/08\/un-declares-famine-gaza-first-ever-middle-east\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United Nations on Friday officially declared a famine in Gaza, the first time it<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":171451,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/171450-un-declares-famine-in-gaza-first-ever-in-middle-east.jpg",1200,628,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/171450-un-declares-famine-in-gaza-first-ever-in-middle-east-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/171450-un-declares-famine-in-gaza-first-ever-in-middle-east-300x157.jpg",300,157,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/171450-un-declares-famine-in-gaza-first-ever-in-middle-east-768x402.jpg",640,335,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/171450-un-declares-famine-in-gaza-first-ever-in-middle-east-1024x536.jpg",640,335,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/171450-un-declares-famine-in-gaza-first-ever-in-middle-east.jpg",1200,628,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/171450-un-declares-famine-in-gaza-first-ever-in-middle-east.jpg",1200,628,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/171450-un-declares-famine-in-gaza-first-ever-in-middle-east-1024x536.jpg",1024,536,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/171450-un-declares-famine-in-gaza-first-ever-in-middle-east-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/171450-un-declares-famine-in-gaza-first-ever-in-middle-east-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=14\" rel=\"category\">BREAKING NEWS<\/a>","tag_info":"BREAKING NEWS","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=171450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171450\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/171451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=171450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=171450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=171450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}