Overview

• The IPC says roughly 500,000 to 514,000 people are already in famine, with projections exceeding 640,000 within weeks without a major change in access.
• The designation rests on extreme food deprivation, acute child malnutrition and starvation-related deaths, with MUAC arm measurements used where standard child assessments are not feasible.
• Humanitarian groups report surging malnutrition, including 5,570 MSF admissions since late May and a growing share of severe acute cases.
• The UN records at least 1,857 deaths while people sought food between late May and mid-August, including over 1,000 near GHF sites it says do not meet humanitarian criteria.
• UN monitors warn famine conditions could expand toward Deir al-Balah and Khan Younis without access improvements, as reporting describes Israeli preparations for an evacuation and full-control plan that could displace up to one million people.