Displaced Gaza residents carry food parcels as they raid trucks carrying humanitarian aid in Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip on Aug. 9, 2025. AFP via Getty
Food shortages in the Gaza Strip have reached the level of famine, according to a report from Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), an independent group of relief and intergovernmental organizations that monitors global hunger conditions.
Famine status indicates acute malnutrition in at least 20 percent of the population and two adult deaths or four child deaths due to starvation for every 10,000 inhabitants, according to IPC’s criteria.
