Insecurity Insight Logs 21,403 Hunger Attacks Since 2018 as Gaza Tops 9,013 Incidents
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Updated · The Guardian · May 24
Insecurity Insight Logs 21,403 Hunger Attacks Since 2018 as Gaza Tops 9,013 Incidents
1 articles · Updated · The Guardian · May 24
Summary
21,403 incidents of deliberate attacks on food supplies were recorded across 15 countries since 2018, according to new Insecurity Insight analysis released around the anniversary of UN Resolution 2417.
1,261 strikes hit markets, 863 targeted food distribution systems, 1,909 struck farmland and 563 hit water infrastructure, showing food access was attacked across the supply chain.
Occupied Palestinian Territory recorded 9,013 incidents, followed by Yemen with 1,863 and Sudan with 1,605; in one of the latest cases, a drone strike on a Sudan market this week killed 28 people.
More than 10,300 people were killed or injured while trying to access aid between October 2023 and the end of 2025, underscoring how civilians are being targeted even as they seek food.
The researchers say the pattern reflects weak enforcement of the 2018 UN ban on starvation tactics, with conflict still driving more than half of severe global hunger and concentrating acute food insecurity in 10 countries.