US EditionUN-Backed Hunger Monitor Declares Famine in Gaza City, Warns of Rapid Spread
Nearly 500,000 people in Gaza City face famine conditions due to restricted food aid and ongoing conflict; malnutrition-related deaths, including children, are rising rapidly, UN experts warn.
- On August 15, 2025, the United Nations-endorsed food security monitoring body confirmed that famine conditions exist in Gaza Governorate, including Gaza City.
- This declaration followed a sharp escalation of conflict, restricted food access, and a near-total Israeli blockade imposed earlier this year, partially eased last month.
- The IPC report states over half a million people face catastrophic conditions marked by starvation, destitution, and death after 22 months of conflict.
- UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called famine a "man-made disaster" and said those obligated to act "are failing," emphasizing a critical need for an immediate ceasefire.
- The famine is projected to spread to Deir al-Balah and Khan Yunis governorates, affecting nearly 641,000 people and underscoring urgent humanitarian intervention needs.
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Despite the UN's recognition of the famine in Gaza, Israel continued its shelling on the besieged Palestinian territory this Saturday to recover some handfuls of rice, Palestinians
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'Far too late': Palestinians despair after UN declares famine in Gaza
Desperate Palestinians clutching pots and plastic buckets scrambled for rice at a charity kitchen in Gaza City on Saturday, a day after the United Nations declared a famine in the war-battered territory.
With pots and buckets in their hands, a crowd of desperate Palestinians rushed on Saturday to get rice from a social dining room in Gaza City, a day after the United Nations (UN) declared that there is famine in this territory devastated by the war with Israel.The AFP images from the largest city of the Palestinian enclave, which Israel plans to take as part of an intensification of its military offensive, show women and small children in the mi…
The UN declaration comes "too late," laments Oum Mohammad, a resident of the Gaza Strip.
Making it Official: Famine Strikes Gaza City
History shows that famines are, for the most part, engineered. Be it through carelessness, selfishness or plain malice on the part of officialdom, creating the circumstances under which a population expires to hunger is a matter of construction. As the economist and Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen so powerfully showed in Poverty and Famines: An Essay on Entitlement and Deprivation (1981), the focus on the cause of famines should be less on the food s…
UN agency says famine in Gaza is 'man-made' as food crisis deepens
The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) committee, responsible for determining the presence of famine, confirmed on Friday that famine is currently occurring in Gaza and is projected to expand to Deir al-Balah and Khan Younis cities in the coming weeks.
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