USAID administrator: Imminent famine in northern Gaza a 'horrific milestone'

USAID administrator Samantha Power said the imminent famine in northern Gaza is a "horrific milestone" after a UN-backed food security assessment warned that over 1.1 million people are experiencing "catastrophic" hunger.

"The catastrophic levels of hunger and malnutrition described in the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) report should be unimaginable in the current era, but for hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza, this is the reality," Power said in a statement late Monday. 

"With just two previous Famine declarations in the twenty-first century, this is a horrific milestone."