The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), which includes the World Health Organization (WHO) as a member, has issued an urgent Food Insecurity and Malnutrition Alert for the Gaza Strip. The alert warns that the region is now experiencing the worst-case scenario—Famine—due to the ongoing conflict, mass displacement, restricted humanitarian access, and the collapse of essential services, including healthcare.
There is growing evidence of widespread starvation, rising rates of acute malnutrition, and hunger-related deaths across Gaza. Recent data confirm that famine thresholds for food consumption have been met in most parts of the Gaza Strip, with Gaza City also reaching famine-level thresholds for acute malnutrition.
The IPC calls for immediate actions to end hostilities, ensure unrestricted humanitarian access, protect civilians and humanitarian workers, and restore life-saving services and aid. It also emphasizes the urgent need to resume the flow of commercial goods and revive local food production capacities to mitigate the crisis.
The IPC is a multi-partner initiative designed to provide objective and scientific assessments of food insecurity and acute malnutrition. Through collaboration among governments, UN agencies, NGOs, and civil society, the IPC delivers evidence-based analysis to guide emergency response, as well as medium- and long-term food security policies and interventions.
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