Overview

• UN‑backed IPC experts say areas in and around Gaza City now meet famine criteria, estimating 132,000 children under five are at risk, including 41,000 in critical condition.
• Benjamin Netanyahu dismissed the assessment as a Hamas‑staged campaign and a "blatant lie," saying it will not deter efforts to free hostages and dismantle Hamas.
• Israel approved operational plans to seize Gaza City, with the military preparing to move roughly one million civilians to tent camps in the south.
• UN Secretary‑General António Guterres described a deliberate collapse of systems needed for survival, while Israel’s COGAT said the report relied on false Hamas data and ignored Israeli information.
• International pressure has intensified as France, Canada and Australia announce steps toward recognizing a Palestinian state and Germany pauses part of its weapons exports, while mediators float a 60‑day truce with a limited hostage exchange that Israel has not accepted.