The UN-backed Integrated Food Security Phase Classification, IPC, has declared famine in Gaza, marking a turning point in the conflict. The classification – regarded as the gold standard in food crises – says more than half a million Palestinians are starving, with that figure set to rise sharply within weeks.
Aid agencies report widespread acute malnutrition, food deprivation and starvation-related deaths, meeting the IPC’s strict criteria for famine. Children, the elderly and the infirm are the most vulnerable.
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Israel has dismissed the findings, accusing the IPC of bias, but UN bodies insist the famine is entirely man-made and avoidable. They say restrictions on aid, erratic approvals for convoys and targeted attacks on food distribution have left families desperate.
Secretary General António Guterres called the crisis a moral failure, urging an immediate ceasefire and unhindered humanitarian access.
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