Palestine - August 2025

On 22 August, the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), a global standard for assessing food insecurity, announced that its Famine Review Committee (FRC) determined that the Gaza Governorate is experiencing famine. The FRC concluded that this famine, which is the highest level on the IPC’s Acute Food Insecurity scale, is man-made, resulting from the ongoing war in Gaza. The IPC also projected the famine to spread to other areas in Gaza (Deir al- Balah and Khan Younis governorates) by the end of September. An area is classified as experiencing famine when there is clear evidence that at least two of the three key thresholds (starvation, acute malnutrition, and mortality), have been met, and broader evidence strongly suggests that the third threshold has likely been reached. This marks the fifth time the IPC has made such a determination since its establishment in 2004. 

Sources: Integrated Food Security Phase Classification, Palestinian News and Information Agency, Reuters