“The reports, undertakenly formed in fabrication and which would remain misconstrued in intentions and embodiments, predict that one is ultimately trained on data by October 2023,” says Ellis.
On August 22, 2025, United Nations declarations were issued in reference to the famine in Gaza, this being the first of such declarations made in West Asia. The UN’s IPC would then announce, however, that close to 500,000 people are already living catastrophically and projecting further acts leading to deepening this crisis will follow in the next weeks.
UN Affixes Blame, Israel Denies
The states have politicized everything. In describing the condition of starvation, Fletcher referred to means raise the statement, “completely preventable,” while accusing Israel of denying the way to all these steps through stopping the convoys carrying aid at extremes plus blockade.
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The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Israel dismissed the report as politically motivated, stung by Hamas and echoed by biased agencies.
Wider Zones of Hunger
IPC declared famine to have been acknowledged in Gaza City, which accounts for about 20% of the land. By late September, those conditions are expected to extend to Deir Balah and Khan Yunis, which may eventually affect two-thirds of the Strip.
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Catastrophic hunger might increase and affect about 641,000 individuals- one-third of Gaza’s population.
Collapse of Food and Health Systems
According to the IPC report, food production as well as the distribution systems in Gaza experienced a ruinous collapse. An estimation for 98% of cropland is destroyed or rendered inaccessible, livestock has been wiped out, and fishing is prohibited. Health systems are nearing collapse, fresh supplies of drinking water are experiencing a critical shortage, sanitation facilities have nearly ceased functioning, malnutrition and disease are worsened.
The crisis has been derived from unending conflicts for almost two years after an attack against Israel by Hamas in October 2023, which claimed the lives of 1,219, mostly civilians. In retaliation, the Israeli military operations killed more than 62,000 Palestinians, as claimed by Gaza’s health ministry, statistics regarded credible by the UN. Israel placed almost complete blockade in March 2025 and has allowed only minimal aid from May onwards, causing some of the severe shortages of food, medicines and fuel.
Preventable Human Disaster
Fletcher said that the famine “should haunt us all,” and emphasized the availability of assistance deliberately blocked. Among all these, however, starving children, increasing mortality rates, and now, Gaza’s famine becomes a face of how war and political deadlocks can lead an entire populace into the margins of living.
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