Key points
- Worst-case scenario of famine currently playing out in Gaza: IPC
- Over 60,000 Palestinians now confirmed killed by Israel’s assault on Gaza
- Not getting permissions to send aid into Gaza: World Food Programme
ISLAMABAD: Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), an initiative supported by the United Nations and major relief agencies, has said the Gaza Strip is experiencing famine conditions.
A group of global food-insecurity experts said it is the most dire assessment of the enclave’s deepening hunger crisis since the war began.
“The worst-case scenario of famine is currently playing out in the Gaza Strip,” IPC said in an interim report.
🚨 #GazaStrip Alert
The worst-case scenario of #Famine is rapidly unfolding in the #GazaStrip amid relentless conflict, displacements, and extremely limited humanitarian access.
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— The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (@theIPCinfo) July 29, 2025
Palestinian authorities said more than 60,000 Palestinians were now confirmed killed by Israel’s assault on the Gaza Strip.
Hunger alert
The hunger alert and the new death toll are grim milestones in the current conflict that began in October 2023.
The alert by the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification raised the prospect that the starvation crisis in Gaza could be formally classified as a famine, in the hope that this might raise the pressure on Israel to let in far more food, according to Reuters
Evidence of starvation, malnutrition, disease
With the international furore over Gaza’s ordeal growing, Israel announced steps over the weekend to ease aid access. But the UN World Food Programme said on Tuesday it was not getting the permissions it needed to deliver enough aid since Israel began humanitarian pauses in warfare on Sunday.
“Mounting evidence shows that widespread starvation, malnutrition and disease are driving a rise in hunger-related deaths,” the IPC said, adding that “famine thresholds” have been reached for food consumption in most of Gaza.
It said it would quickly carry out the formal analysis that could allow it to classify Gaza as “in famine”.
Gaza health authorities have been reporting more and more people dying from hunger-related causes. The total stands at 147, among them 88 children, most of whom died in the last few weeks.
Only 109 aid trucks allowed
According to Al Jazeera, Israel allowed only 109 aid trucks into the Gaza Strip, but most were looted during escalating security chaos.
“Today, 109 aid trucks entered Gaza, with the majority looted and robbed due to the security chaos systematically and deliberately imposed by the Israeli occupation,” the Government Media Office said in a statement.
The media office emphasised that Gaza requires at least 600 aid trucks and fuel daily to meet civilians’ basic needs as famine spreads.
Israel aims to “sabotage aid distribution and deprive civilians of assistance as part of engineering chaos and starvation”, it added.
Airdrop operations failed to reach those in need, the office said, noting that “four of six air drops landed in areas under Israeli military control or neighbourhoods where civilians had been ordered to evacuate”.
