Famine in Gaza

https://www.ipcinfo.org/fileadmin/user_upload/ipcinfo/docs/IPC_GazaStrip_Alert_July2025.pdf

Apparently, the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) is very reluctant to declare famine, and sets a high bar for evidence. the link above is to the July report on Gaza:

“Malnutrition has been rising rapidly in the first half of July and has reached the Famine
threshold in Gaza City. Over 20,000 children have been admitted for treatment for acute
malnutrition between April and mid-July, with more than 3,000 severely malnourished.11
Hospitals have reported a rapid increase in hunger-related deaths of children under five
years of age, with at least 16 reported deaths since 17 July.12″

That is, 20% of households have an extreme lack of food, AND, >30% children experiencing acute malnutrition, AND, 2 adults or 4 child daily deaths per 10,000 population outright starvation or to the interaction
of malnutrition and disease.
(https://www.ipcinfo.org/fileadmin/user_upload/ipcinfo/docs/IPC_Famine_Factsheet.pdf)