Famine Is Not “Imminent” in Gaza, It’s Already Underway—but There’s a Reason It’s So Hard to Declare It.

On April 5, a Reuters article mentioned in passing that there was famine in Gaza. Soon after, they issued a correction: “Gaza suffers widespread hunger, not famine.” An error had been made. Famine was “imminent,” the correction read, but did not yet exist. Just six days later, though, on April 11, several news outlets reported that according to the administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development, Samantha Power, famine in Gaza had likely already begun. Campus protests and the crackdowns on them, the intercepted missile and drone strikes from...