The Famine Review Committee (FRC) has officially confirmed famine (IPC Phase 5) in Gaza Governorate, marking it one of the few times such a classification has ever been declared globally. The crisis is projected to expand to Deir al-Balah and Khan Younis by the end of September. Over half million people in the Gaza Strip are already facing catastrophic conditions characterized by starvation, destitution, and death.
As Gaza faces mass starvation and humanitarian collapse, over 100 aid organizations are sounding the alarm. With civilians dying while seeking food and humanitarian workers blocked from delivering aid, the situation has reached a breaking point.
Gaza is now in Emergency (IPC Phase 4), with over 250,000 people facing starvation and 71,000 children suffering from acute malnutrition. Aid blockades have halted food, water, and medicine. Without urgent intervention, famine is imminent.
After two months of the aid blockade in Gaza, Action Against Hunger warns that food stock is critically low. Immediate aid entry and distribution is critical to support the 80% of Gaza's population who are dependent on aid to survive.
Aid agencies and medical professionals have joined forces to call urgently for a ceasefire to allow life-saving polio vaccinations to be administered to about 640,000 children aged under 10 following confirmation of the first case of polio in Gaza in 25 years, with reports of other suspected cases emerging.
