Thank you for the question.
Once again, I apologize that my colleague Michel‑Olivier Lacharité is not here to answer questions, as he is the director of emergency services at Doctors Without Borders.
It's to say that, yes, indeed, it's quite clear, and it's been quite clear for a long period of time now. We have been, in our own capacity of providing medical care, seeing incredibly high numbers of malnutrition. We already know, of course, that the famine designation is around the Zamzam camp. We already know the IPC designation.
You picked up on the fact that we're also seeing adults arriving at our facilities in states of acute malnutrition. I would like to highlight how abnormal that is. In most of the work we do in terms of providing medical care to malnutrition cases, these are usually children under the age of five. The fact that we are now seeing such a high number of adults arriving at our facilities in Tawila who are also suffering from malnutrition really speaks to the impact of this siege.
Again, this siege has cut off essentials from the population inside El Fasher. It's emblematic of the way that a lot of this war has been conducted. It's worth pointing out that these extreme levels of malnutrition point to the deliberate impediment and blocking of life essentials under this siege as part of the way this war is being conducted.
Again, I'll just return to the point that we know that this is a violation of international humanitarian law and that this is something we established decades ago should not be a part of a conflict situation. There should be protections for civilians. There should be no blockage of something as essential as food. Turning food into a weapon of war is the kind of activity for which there need to be consequences for these violations.