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Global Hunger Monitors Warn Gaza Is Entering Worst-Case Famine

Under a tightened blockade, daily pauses, token airdrops, minimal convoys have left Gaza breaching famine thresholds on a trickle of humanitarian aid.

A charity distributes meals to Palestinians facing food shortages in Gaza City on July 28, 2025.
Yazan Abu Ful, a 2-year-old malnourished child, sits at his family home in the Shati refugee camp in Gaza City on Wednesday, July 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)
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TOPSHOT - Palestinians, mostly children, push to receive a hot meal at a charity kitchen in the Mawasi area of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on July 22, 2025. The head of Gaza's largest hospital said 21 children have died due to malnutrition and starvation in the Palestinian territory in the past three days, amid a devastating assault by Israeli forces. (Photo by AFP) (Photo by -/AFP via Getty Images)

Overview

  • The IPC reports that food consumption levels consistent with famine have been breached across most of Gaza while acute malnutrition rates spike in Gaza City.
  • Gaza’s Health Ministry confirms more than 60,000 Palestinians have died in the nearly 22-month conflict, with hunger-related fatalities rising.
  • The IDF’s daily tactical pauses in Gaza City, Deir al-Balah and Mawasi have enabled only limited aid trucks and airdrops amid looting and security incidents.
  • The UK, Jordan and the UAE have launched airdrops and child evacuation plans, but aid volumes remain far below the roughly 62,000 metric tons per month experts say are needed.
  • Human rights groups and legal experts are examining whether the blockade and denial of aid amount to war crimes or genocide, intensifying calls for unimpeded humanitarian corridors.