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WFP: famine is emerging in Gaza as food‑security indicators breach thresholds
Summary
World Food Programme officials told a U.N. press briefing that two of three IPC famine indicators have exceeded thresholds in parts of Gaza, describing an emerging famine and calling for faster clearance of convoys, a surge in supplies and safer distribution to reach vulnerable people.
Jean Martin Bauer, director of food security and nutrition analysis at the World Food Programme, told a U.N. press briefing that an updated Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) alert shows a famine is emerging in the Gaza Strip.
"For household food deficits, those have been above famine thresholds for a long time in many parts of Gaza," Bauer said, and added that "today, we've got over 33 percent of the population that goes an entire day without having access to any food." He said global acute malnutrition had quadrupled in Gaza City between May and July and that two of the three IPC indicators (household food deficits and malnutrition) are now above famine thresholds.
The IPC alert and WFP analysis matter because they indicate rapidly worsening conditions that, if not reversed, would lead to greater child malnutrition and additional deaths. WFP officials warned that only sustained, large‑scale humanitarian access can slow or reverse the trend.
Bauer and Ross Smith, WFP…
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