Overview

• Israel’s Foreign Ministry sent a formal letter to the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification calling for withdrawal of its Gaza assessment and warned it will urge donor states to suspend financing if the report stands.
• Director General Eden Bar Tal accused the IPC of fabricating 182 deaths to meet famine thresholds, using a prohibited MUAC 15% trigger, relying on clinic-based samples, and selecting 7,519 of 15,749 children’s records to tip results.
• The IPC report stated famine is occurring in Gaza Governorate and projected deterioration in other areas, estimating hundreds of thousands at catastrophic food insecurity and significant malnutrition among children and pregnant or breastfeeding women.
• The United Nations defended the IPC process as robust and technical through the Secretary‑General’s spokesman, while the acting U.S. ambassador to the U.N., Dorothy Shea, questioned the report’s credibility and cited concerns about author bias and altered standards.
• Israel said it will oppose the report’s use as reliable data, circulated a presentation titled “The IPC Fraud,” and maintained that the panel misrepresented July data to inflate malnutrition and mortality indicators.