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FAO: 67% of Gaza Faces Crisis Food Insecurity

8/27/2026

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  • Palestinian farmer Saqer Abu Rabee continues cultivating a 1.4-hectare plot in Beit Lahiya despite his son’s and brother’s deaths.
  • Aubergine prices dropped to under two shekels per kilogram, from 40 shekels months earlier.
  • FAO estimates only 450 hectares (3% of prewar cropland) are undamaged and ready for immediate cultivation.
  • FAO reports 1.4 million people (67% of Gaza’s population) face crisis-level acute food insecurity.