Famine Declared in Gaza City by UN-Backed Group Amidst Israeli Rejection

Famine Declaration in Gaza

• 🌍 A UN-backed global hunger monitor, the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), has declared famine in Gaza City.
• ⚠️ This marks the first time famine has been declared in Gaza, with catastrophic conditions expected to spread to other parts of the territory by the end of September.

Scale of the Crisis

• 📌 Over half a million people in Gaza are facing starvation, destitution, and death, representing about a quarter of the strip's estimated population.
• 📈 The IPC projects that by the end of September, more than 640,000 people will face famine conditions.

International Response and Accusations

• 🗣️ The UN's aid chief described the famine as preventable and openly promoted by some Israeli leaders as a weapon of war, stating, "This is a famine on all of our watch."
• 🌍 The Gaza famine is noted as the first famine in the Middle East in modern times.

Israel's Rejection of the Report

• ❌ Israel has rejected the report, calling it false and biased, and stating that there is no famine in Gaza.
• 🚚 Israel's foreign ministry cited nearly 100,000 trucks entering Gaza over the past two years as evidence against the famine claim.
• ⚖️ Israel accuses the IPC of fabricating the report to fit Hamas's narrative and twisting its own rules by lowering the famine threshold definition.