Overview

• The analysis says more than half a million people now face catastrophic conditions, with the toll projected to reach nearly 641,000—about one third of Gaza’s population—by late September as risks extend to Deir al‑Balah and Khan Younis.
• The report estimates 132,000 children under five face life‑threatening malnutrition, including 41,000 expected to suffer severe wasting, and notes about 55,500 pregnant or breastfeeding women are acutely malnourished.
• IPC’s famine designation relies on thresholds for extreme food deprivation, acute child malnutrition of at least 30 percent, and death rates linked to hunger that meet its defined criteria.
• UN humanitarian chief Tom Fletcher says some Israeli leaders are promoting hunger as a weapon of war and urges an immediate ceasefire and the opening of crossings for large‑scale relief.
• Israel’s COGAT rejects the findings as false and based on partial or unreliable data, arguing the assessment overlooks Israeli humanitarian measures and relies on information from Hamas and UNRWA.