A leading organization monitoring global food crises withdrew a recent report this week, warning of impending famine in northern Gaza due to what it described as Israel’s near-total blockade on food aid, after a request from the United States to retract it. Humanitarian and human rights officials expressed deep concern over U.S. political interference in the global famine monitoring system after public criticism of the report by U.S. envoy to Israel, Jack Lew.

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    Dr. Marwan Asmar holds a PhD from Leeds University and is a freelance writer specializing on the Middle East. He has worked as a journalist since the early 1990s in Jordan and the Gulf countries, and been widely published, including at Albawaba, Gulf News, Al Ghad, World Press Review and others.

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