08/22/2025August 22, 2025
Starvation, destitution and death grip Gaza, UN-backed assessment says
Parts of are now experiencing famine, marked by widespread starvation, destitution and death, according to the latest report from the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC).
More than half a million people are facing the most severe, or “catastrophic,” levels of food insecurity, the UN-backed assessment found.
This is the first time a famine has been officially confirmed in the territory.
A further one million people, more than half the population, are in an emergency situation, while nearly 400,000 are in crisis, the report said.
In order to declare a famine, the IPC has three criteria, at least 20% of households face an extreme lack of food, at least 30% of children suffer acute malnutrition, and two people for every 10,000 die each day due to “outright starvation.”
Conditions are expected to worsen between mid-August and the end of September, with famine projected to spread to Deir al-Balah and Khan Younis.
After a global outcry at Israel’s severe restrictions on aid from March, the Israeli military began allowing a limited amount of food into Gaza in late July.
The findings come as has renewed military operations in Gaza City.
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