The entire population of the embattled Gaza Strip is affected by acute food insecurity, according to US Secretary of State Antony Blinken. “According to the most respected measure of these things, 100% of the population in Gaza is at severe levels of acute food insecurity,” Blinken said on Tuesday in Manila at the end of a visit to the Philippines. “That’s the first time an entire population has been so classified. We also see – again, according to in this case the United Nations – 100%, the totality of the population, is in need of humanitarian assistance.” Blinken went on to say that, while …