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A global group of experts announced that Gaza City and surrounding areas are officially suffering from famine due to the ongoing war and Israeli restrictions on aid. At least half a million people are facing starvation, acute malnutrition, and death. The report highlights the man-made nature of the famine and calls for immediate action.
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- A global group of experts announced that Gaza City and surrounding areas are officially suffering from famine due to the ongoing war and Israeli restrictions on aid. At least half a million people are facing starvation, acute malnutrition, and death. The report highlights the man-made nature of the famine and calls for immediate action.
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Listen to this article \u00b7 12:08 min Learn moreShare full articlePalestinians jostling for food outside a charity kitchen in western Gaza City on Friday.Credit...Saher Alghorra for The New York TimesBy Vivian YeeAug. 22, 2025Updated 9:50 a.m. ETGaza City and the surrounding territory are officially suffering from famine, a global group of experts announced on Friday, nearly two years into an unrelenting war in which Israel has blocked most food and other aid from entering the Gaza Strip.The group, which the United Nations and aid agencies rely on to monitor and classify global hunger crises, said that at least half a million people in Gaza Governorate were facing the most severe conditions it measures: starvation, acute malnutrition and death.With rare exceptions, the rest of Gaza\u2019s total population of two million people was also struggling with severe hunger, according to the group, the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification, which is made up of food insecurity experts who monitor world hunger.For many of those people, the group said, conditions were likely to worsen, sending two additional governorates farther south \u2014 Deir al-Balah and Khan Younis \u2014 into an official famine by the end of September.\n \n \nBar chart shows the proportion of Gaza\u2019s northern governorates and southern governorates that are facing different levels of food insecurity, ranging from crisis (level 3) to famine (level 5).\nFood insecurity levels by region\nEmergency\nCrisis\nFamine with reasonable evidence\nGaza Governorate\n20%\n50%\n30%\nDeir al-Balah Governorate\n20%\n55%\n25%\nKhan Younis Governorate\n20%\n60%\n20%\nFood insecurity levels by region\nCrisis\nEmergency\nFamine with reasonable evidence\nGaza Governorate\n20%\n50%\n30%\nDeir al-Balah Governorate\n20%\n55%\n25%\nKhan Younis Governorate\n20%\n60%\n20%\nThe group said in a report published on Friday that a combination of several factors had tipped Gaza from a hunger crisis into famine: the intensifying conflict, stringent Israeli restrictions on aid, the collapse of health care, water and sanitation systems, the destruction of local agriculture and the growing number of times people had been forced to flee for new shelters.It said that conditions in the northernmost part of Gaza were likely to be as severe, or worse, than in Gaza City, but that it had not had enough data to judge whether famine was occurring there. And it said it did not analyze Rafah, the southernmost part of Gaza, because most people there had been forced to leave.The report said that famine in Gaza could be \u201chalted and reversed\u201d because it was \u201centirely man-made.\u201d\u201cThe time for debate and hesitation has passed,\u201d it added. \u201cStarvation is present and is rapidly spreading.\u201dEven a short delay in flooding Gaza with aid would \u201cexponentially\u201d increase preventable deaths, it said.Want to stay updated on what\u2019s happening in Eastern Africa, the Middle East and North Africa? Sign up for Your Places: Global Update, and we\u2019ll send our latest coverage to your inbox.Throughout the war, Israeli officials have consistently downplayed or denied the severity of hunger in Gaza. On Friday, the Israeli security agency that oversees aid deliveries to the enclave rejected the group\u2019s findings, saying that the experts had disregarded Israeli data on aid deliveries and overlooked Israel\u2019s efforts over the last few weeks to bring more food into the territory, which it said had improved the situation.Aid officials, however, say those measures fall short of what is needed after months of scarcity. The experts\u2019 report, which used data from Gaza collected through Aug. 15, said it had taken into account recent Israeli moves to loosen restrictions, which began July 27, but said they were \u201cinsufficient.\u201dThe top U.N. humanitarian official, Tom Fletcher, told journalists in Geneva that the famine was one \u201cwe could have prevented if we had been allowed. Yet food stacks up at borders because of systematic obstruction by Israel.\u201dCalling for a cease-fire to allow for a flood of aid into Gaza, he added: \u201cIt is a famine openly promoted by some Israeli leaders as a weapon of war.\u201dThe Israeli agency, known as COGAT, criticized the expert group, which is known as the I.P.C., for relying on what it called speculation and methodology it called questionable.\u201cThe I.P.C. report is based on partial and unreliable sources,\u201d Maj. Gen. Ghassan Alian, the agency\u2019s head, said in a statement, adding that it \u201cblatantly ignores the facts and the extensive humanitarian efforts\u201d led by Israel.Deaths from hunger-related causes had already accelerated rapidly in Gaza this summer, the report said, well before the announcement on Friday.But for the monitoring group to reach the conclusion that a famine is happening, it had to determine that Gaza meets three conditions: at least one in five households facing an extreme food shortage; a certain proportion of children acutely malnourished; and at least two adults or four children out of every 10,000 people dying each day, either from outright starvation or a combination of disease and malnutrition.ImageFood being airdropped over Gaza City this month.Credit...Saher Alghorra for The New York TimesThe group said that the proportion of Gaza households reporting very severe hunger had doubled from May to July. It had more than tripled in Gaza City, where famine was confirmed, but Khan Younis and Deir al-Balah had also passed the famine threshold on that count, the group said.Across Gaza, the number of acutely malnourished children has risen exponentially over the last three months, the group said. There are about 1.1 million children in the territory, according to the United Nations.A determination of famine from the hunger monitoring group is rare. Since its founding in 2004, the group has confirmed only three other famines: in Somalia in 2011, South Sudan in 2017 and war-torn Sudan last year. More than 100,000 people died in Somalia before the official declaration of famine arrived.In those cases, announcing a famine helped focus global attention on the crisis and galvanized donors.There is already deep international outrage over starvation in Gaza. Images of hungry children, reports of aid workers, medical workers and journalists being too weak to do their jobs and increasingly urgent warnings from aid groups have shocked consciences worldwide.Gaza also does not lack for donations. Aid agencies say they have enough supplies stockpiled just beyond the territory\u2019s borders to feed its entire population for at least three months. What Gaza does not have, they say, are the permissions or the conditions required for aid groups to distribute those supplies inside the territory.\u201cWe are not facing a logistics, capacity or resource problem,\u201d Tjada D\u2019Oyen McKenna, the head of Mercy Corps, an aid group operating in Gaza, said in a statement after the announcement on Friday. \u201cWhat\u2019s missing is not the ability to respond, but the political will to allow it. Failure to do so will cost countless additional lives.\u201dIsrael says that the level of hunger in the enclave has been exaggerated, and that it is doing its best to lessen it. Israel\u2019s military spokesman previously said there was no starvation in Gaza.Israel\u2019s foreign ministry lashed out at the report on Friday, denying that there was a famine in Gaza and saying the I.P.C. experts had changed their standards to fabricate a famine assessment. It said the experts did so \u201csolely to serve Hamas\u2019s fake campaign.\u201dThe ministry accused the experts of lowering the threshold for one of the three criteria required for a famine determination \u2014 the proportion of acutely malnourished children \u2014 to 15 percent from 30 percent.The report offered a technical explanation. To determine famine conditions \u201cwith reasonable evidence,\u201d it said, experts could by longstanding protocol apply two methods for measuring child malnutrition. One uses a child\u2019s height and weight; the other, the circumference of a child\u2019s upper arm. For an area to be experiencing famine, at least 30 percent of children under 5 must be considered acutely malnourished by height and weight measures. Under the arm circumference method used in Gaza, it said, the accepted threshold dropped to 15 percent.The group said that it had used arm circumference data in Gaza because height and weight data was not available. It said it had often employed this method in famine determinations, including in South Sudan in 2020 and in Sudan last year, and that it had consistently applied it in Gaza throughout the war.Israel\u2019s foreign ministry also said, without explaining how, that the group was \u201cignoring\u201d a second standard criterion, the death rate. The experts said that while they had been unable to obtain a full count of hunger-related deaths in Gaza because the health care system and other monitoring mechanisms had been severely damaged, the evidence made them confident that the number had crossed the famine threshold.If anything, the report said, they believed the true hunger-related death toll was \u201csignificantly higher\u201d than Gaza officials had reported. The report said they had based the assessment on several sources, including figures from Gaza\u2019s health ministry, World Health Organization nutrition centers, a Doctors Without Borders survey and phone surveys.\u201cThe absence of data should not be interpreted as an absence of mortality,\u201d the report said.Israel first cut off aid to Gaza in retaliation for the October 2023 Hamas-led attack on southern Israel, in which some 1,200 people were killed and around 250 were taken hostage. Limited aid deliveries then resumed under a United Nations-run system.ImageA market with sparse food offerings last month in Gaza City.Credit...Saher Alghorra for The New York TimesUnder global pressure, Israel has made concessions on its aid blockade, allowing in more food, water, medicine and other supplies. It has blamed the United Nations for not bringing in more food. But the organization and other aid groups say that Israel frequently denies or delays U.N. requests to pick up the supplies waiting at the border and move them into Gaza safely, among other challenges.Another major obstacle, they say, is that people in Gaza are so desperate to eat that they routinely wait along the aid convoys\u2019 routes to grab whatever they can from the trucks. Most of the aid is taken this way, depriving people who cannot physically seek food from the trucks \u2014 including women, children, older people and the sick.In March, Israel imposed another total siege in an effort to pressure Hamas into releasing hostages still in Gaza.In May, Israel largely replaced the U.N. aid system by backing a new and much-criticized operation run mainly by American contractors. Israeli officials said it was the only way to ensure food did not fall into Hamas\u2019s hands.Since the new group began distributing food in late May, hundreds of Palestinians have been killed near its sites, according to Gazan officials and the U.N. human rights office. The Israeli military has said its troops have fired \u201cwarning shots\u201d toward surging crowds and that it is investigating the episodes.The New York Times reported in July that the Israeli military had never found proof that Hamas systematically stole aid from the United Nations \u2014 a claim that Israel had frequently made to justify sidelining the U.N. aid system. Israeli officials said there was evidence that Hamas did take aid from other aid groups.The hunger monitoring group has been warning for much of the war that Gaza was at high risk of famine. Aid officials have said that without a cease-fire allowing relief agencies to deliver large amounts of aid throughout Gaza safely and speedily, hunger and its complications will kill many more people there.While Hamas has agreed to a new cease-fire proposal from mediators, Israeli forces are gearing up for a new offensive to take over Gaza City, the territory\u2019s largest city and the heart of the area where famine was confirmed on Friday.Troops were already massing on the city\u2019s outskirts on Thursday, while Israeli officials were preparing to forcibly displace people to southern Gaza for what they said was their safety.The displacement plans have drawn accusations from Palestinians and rights groups that Israel is pushing people from Gaza into something akin to a concentration camp.Adam Rasgon and Nick Cumming-Bruce contributed reporting.Vivian Yee is a Times reporter covering North Africa and the broader Middle East. 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Middle East CrisisThe LatestIsraelβs Widening OffensiveFear in Gaza CityMediation EffortsChildhood in GazaWest Bank SettlementsProtests in IsraelAdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTSupported bySKIP ADVERTISEMENTGaza City and Surrounding Areas Are Officially Under Famine, Monitors SayAt least half a million people in the enclave were facing the most severe conditions measured by U.N.-backed international experts: starvation, acute malnutrition and death. Listen to this article Β· 12:08 min Learn moreShare full articlePalestinians jostling for food outside a charity kitchen in western Gaza City on Friday.Credit...Saher Alghorra for The New York TimesBy Vivian YeeAug. 22, 2025Updated 9:50 a.m. ETGaza City and the surrounding territory are officially suffering from famine, a global group of experts announced on Friday, nearly two years into an unrelenting war in which Israel has blocked most food and other aid from entering the Gaza Strip.The group, which the United Nations and aid agencies rely...
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π€ The author π News Article π·οΈ Conflict , Humanitarian Crisis π a114b5a9-e7ed-4e33-913b-ebdf2256ccafSimplified: Israel's subsequent military assault on Gaza has caused hunger crisis
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Most of its population, according to the United Nations, is experiencing or staring down starvation.0.900π€ Lydia Polgreen π News Article π·οΈ Health , Political π a11619d6-1797-4aa7-973d-e3fcc243fcdbSimplified: Most of Gaza's population is experiencing starvation
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Simplified: The rest of Gazaβs total population of two million people was also struggling with severe hunger
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Simplified: Conditions were likely to worsen sending Deir al-Balah and Khan Younis into an official famine by the end of September
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Simplified: Famine in Gaza could be halted and reversed because it was entirely man-made
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Simplified: A short delay in flooding Gaza with aid would exponentially increase preventable deaths
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Simplified: The Israeli security agency rejected the groupβs findings
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π€ Humanitarian officials π News Article π·οΈ Humanitarian , Aid π a114b4c7-13a3-4735-bfe9-6467e234e30dSimplified: GHF's provisions so far have been grossly inadequate humanitarian officials said
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Simplified: COGAT criticized the expert group for relying on speculation and questionable methodology
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π€ The author π News Article π a1161aa8-fc80-4f68-8831-7d33d4cb61e9Simplified: Ren has risen exponentially over last three months
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Simplified: About 1.1 million children in territory require mental health support
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π€ The author π News Article π a1161aaa-d62e-4b28-893b-015b9e91ba5bSimplified: Determination of famine from hunger monitoring group is rare
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π€ The author π News Article π a1161aac-9efc-4ce1-964e-2f5c4d63c03dSimplified: More than 100000 people died in Somalia before official declaration of famine arrived
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π€ The author π News Article π a1161aad-7531-4627-a407-3a9d2485121bSimplified: Announcing famine helped focus global attention on crisis and galvanized donors in those cases
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π€ The author π News Article π·οΈ Politics , Geopolitics π a1161921-055a-4f1c-aaef-1d51418ea0a3Simplified: Israeli government faces international fury over its conduct of war against Hamas in Gaza
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π€ The author π News Article π a1161aaf-563e-47fb-adfc-89650924adc9Simplified: Images of hungry children reports of aid workers medical workers journalists being too weak to do their jobs increasingly urgent warnings from aid gro...
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π€ The author π News Article π a1161ab1-4d37-42a8-be49-4c4d807f061eSimplified: Gaza does not have permissions or conditions required for aid groups to distribute supplies inside territory
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π€ Aid agencies π News Article π a1161ab0-4a14-4dd4-b737-622ead9a1296Simplified: Aid agencies say they have enough supplies stockpiled to feed entire population for at least three months
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π€ Tjada DβOyen McKenna π News Article π a1161ab2-35dc-4e5f-9e1f-ec50ee41f495Simplified: Mercy Corps head said they are not facing a logistics capacity or resource problem
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π€ Tjada DβOyen McKenna π News Article π a1161ab3-0907-4f7f-89b9-a8b80da270f6Simplified: What is missing is not ability to respond but political will to allow it
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π€ Tjada DβOyen McKenna π News Article π a1161ab3-d4d3-490a-89f3-a4a7741cc38fSimplified: Failure to do so will cost countless additional lives
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π€ Israelβs foreign ministry π News Article π a1161ab7-14d9-4b60-9bc4-12da18dbfcb1Simplified: It said experts did so solely to serve Hamasβs fake campaign
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One uses a childβs height and weight; the other, the circumference of a childβs upper arm.1.000π€ The author π News Article π a1161ab9-bfdd-4a19-903b-8f2af1cca883Simplified: One method uses childβs height and weight other uses circumference of childβs upper arm
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π€ The author π News Article π a1161abd-7253-4f22-82d8-42c3e6d9fbdbSimplified: It said it had often employed this method in famine determinations including in South Sudan in 2020 and in Sudan last year
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π€ Israelβs foreign ministry π News Article π a1161abe-736c-43db-b629-fa05d25c29beSimplified: Israelβs foreign ministry said group was ignoring second standard criterion the death rate
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π€ The report π News Article π a1161ac1-7893-498a-878a-ba38b4a2738aSimplified: Report said they had based assessment on several sources including figures from Gazaβs health ministry World Health Organization nutrition centers a D...
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βThe absence of data should not be interpreted as an absence of mortality,β the report said.1.000π€ The report π News Article π a1161ac2-7056-4a06-820f-8c2367ee18deSimplified: Absence of data should not be interpreted as absence of mortality report said
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π€ The author π News Article π·οΈ Conflict , Historical π a114b5a7-894d-49f8-8c57-6d1dc2807463Simplified: Gaza war was triggered in October 2023 when Palestinian Hamas militants attacked Israel killing 1200 people and taking 251 hostages
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π€ The author π News Article π a1161ac4-8742-4744-81fe-490bc6b8882dSimplified: Limited aid deliveries then resumed under United Nations-run system
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Simplified: Israel allowed some food back into territory in late May
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π€ The author π News Article π a1161ac9-3d76-4143-891c-01fbeea99ad6Simplified: Most of aid is taken this way depriving people who cannot physically seek food from trucks including women children older people and the sick
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Simplified: Israel says about 20 surviving hostages and roughly 30 bodies are still in Gaza after nearly two years of war
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π€ The author π News Article π·οΈ Casualties , Conflict π a114b5a6-d4e5-433b-99c1-6cfcfd0d644cSimplified: 397 Palestinians among those trying to get food aid had been killed and more than 3000 were wounded since late May
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π€ UN agencies and major aid groups π News Article π·οΈ Humanitarian , Politics π a114b4c5-8022-4f15-8832-c7081450fd04Simplified: They deny widespread theft of aid by Hamas
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π€ The author π News Article π·οΈ Military , Cease-fire , Famine π a1161ad1-7200-4c48-a6c3-11c649610a17Simplified: Hamas agreed to a new cease-fire proposal Israeli forces are gearing up for a new offensive to take over Gaza City
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π€ The author π News Article π·οΈ Military , Geopolitics π a114bbba-6380-49e2-a366-e04d8bc62346Simplified: It is likely to take the military days to call up reserve forces carry out troop deployments for a push into Gaza City and allow time for the forced e...
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π€ The author π News Article π·οΈ Military , Human Rights π a114b800-89ba-4f14-a5fb-6a785bdd7a7aSimplified: The Israeli authoritiesβ organized violent displacement of Palestinians in Gaza is likely planned to be permanent in the buffer zones and security cor...