US EditionGaza City Suffering a ‘Man-Made’ Famine that’s Likely to Spread, UN-Backed Initiative Says
- On Thursday, the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification announced famine at level five in Gaza City and warned conditions could worsen in Deir al-Balah and Khan Younis by late September.
- In its July 29, 2025 assessment, the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification lowered the acute malnutrition threshold from 30% to 15%, applying which Gaza City registered a 16.50% rate that met famine criteria.
- Friday's IPC report added that malnutrition threatens 132,000 children under five, including 41,000 severe cases, with 514,000 people in famine conditions expected to rise to 641,000 within weeks; as this Famine is entirely man-made, it can be halted and reversed.
- COGAT responded Friday with a counter-report that Israel's Defense Ministry and the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories emphasized more than 10,000 aid trucks and over 2.2 million relief packages entered Gaza since May.
- UN officials warned that UN Secretary-General António Guterres called Gaza's famine `a man-made disaster`, UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk said deaths `may constitute war crimes`, and analysts cautioned selective rule changes risk politicizing the humanitarian system.
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More than half a million people in the Gaza Strip suffer from hunger. In the region around the city of Gaza in the north of the coastal strip, about 514.000 people would not get enough to eat, said the leading initiative for food security IPC on Friday. Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, however, does not want to believe the UN report: he even called it a "smooth lie". The IPC (Integrated Food Security Phase Classification) is an initia…
The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IFC), a tool associated with some 25 global partners, including United Nations agencies, stated on Friday that it confirmed with "reasonable evidence" that there has been "hambruna" in Gaza since August 15.
Famine confirmed for 500,000 in Gaza: IPC warns crisis spreading
Famine is now officially confirmed for more than 500,000 people in Gaza, with widespread starvation expected to intensify in the coming weeks, according to a new report from the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) published on Friday. The analysis warns famine conditions will expand rapidly beyond Gaza City to Deir Al Balah and Khan Younis in a matter of weeks. The report states that by the end of next month, more than 640,000 pe…
COGAT says UN's Gaza Famine report distorted with Hamas-linked sources and faulty data
COGAT emphasized that since May, more than 10,000 aid trucks have entered Gaza and that the U.S.- and Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation has distributed over 2.2 million relief packages. By Vered Weiss, World Israel News Israel is challenging a new global report declaring famine in northern Gaza, arguing the findings are based on unreliable data and fail to reflect aid deliveries on the ground. The Integrated Food Security Phase Classifi…
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