Gaza’s famine one year on: Did the world learn anything?

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On 22nd August last year, the UN-backed Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) officially confirmed famine in Gaza Governorate, including Gaza City, after determining that famine conditions had already existed by mid-August 2025.

More than half a million people were facing starvation, destitution and death.

UN humanitarian chief Tom Fletcher, speaking to international media and later to the Security Council, called it “the Gaza Famine.” He warned that it could have been prevented, pointing to the restrictions on humanitarian access and the devastating consequences of Israel’s war on Gaza since October 2023—it is a manmade famine and it is “openly promoted by some Israeli leaders as a weapon of war” Fletcher emphasised .

By the time famine conditions had somewhat […]

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