Overview

• The IPC’s Famine Review Committee confirmed famine in Gaza City on Aug. 22 and warned it is likely to spread to Deir al-Balah and Khan Younis.
• Famine status reflects simultaneous thresholds for extreme household food deprivation, acute malnutrition among children under five above 30%, and elevated starvation-related mortality.
• WFP reports a recent average of roughly 100 aid trucks per day entering Gaza, far below the 500–600 trucks daily that UN and aid groups say are needed, even as Israeli figures cite a rise to about 186 per day in August.
• UNICEF chief Catherine Russell estimated about 18,000 children in Gaza have died since the conflict began, called disputes over famine methodology “obscene,” and urged access for international media and humanitarian distributors over the contested Gaza Humanitarian Foundation system.
• Israel rejects the IPC findings as false, while Canada endorsed the assessment, said Israel is failing its obligations under international law, and urged a ceasefire and more aid; President Donald Trump has not publicly addressed the famine declaration.