The Famine Review Committee (FRC) found that food insecurity in the Gaza Governorate, which includes Gaza City and its surrounding areas, has reached “Phase 5” – the highest and most severe level – and warned that “malnutrition threatens the lives of 132,000 children under five” in the war-torn enclave.
It warned that if a ceasefire were not implemented immediately to allow aid to reach Gaza’s residents, avoidable deaths would increase exponentially.
Posting on X, he said: “People are starving. Children are dying. And those with the duty to act are failing. As the occupying power, Israel has unequivocal obligations under international law — including the duty of ensuring food and medical supplies of the population. We cannot allow this situation to continue with impunity.”
Palestinians flee the Abu Iskandar neighbourhood of northern Gaza City (Photo: Bashar Taleb/ AFP)
The GHF, a non-for-profit organisation backed by Israel and the US, began operating in Gaza in February, overriding the UN and established humanitarian aid networks that had functioned in the territory for decades by May, after Israel’s two-month blockade on the enclave.
In a message to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Fletcher said: “It is too late for far too many. But not for everyone in Gaza. Enough. For humanity’s sake, let us in.”
While the IPC does not itself formally declare whether a famine is occurring, it provides analysis that allows governments, organisations and agencies to issue statements or declarations about famine.
Gaza’s health ministry reported that 271 people have died of “famine and malnutrition” since October 2023, including 112 children.
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Cogat says the IPC’s famine classification rests on an “unpublished phone survey and questionable assessments by Unrwa, a UN agency known for its workers being an integral part of Hamas, and local NGOs, while speculating wildly about mortality rates that even Hamas’s own Health Ministry does not report”.
Israeli broadcaster Kan said on Thursday the direct water lines from Israel would be repaired to increase the volume of water in the southern Gaza Strip, where some 800,000 Gazans will be transferred as part of preparations for the occupation of Gaza City.
UK government’s failure ‘bewildering as it is reprehensible’
She said that “Israel has continued to deprive Palestinians of food” despite warnings that famine was imminent spanning back to July.
Stawski added: “The failure of the UK government to put any meaningful pressure on Israel, standing idly by as people – including babies – starve to death, is as bewildering as it is reprehensible. This has to stop – the UK must use every diplomatic, legal and economic tool; including demanding the full, unhindered access of aid at scale, halting all arms sales, working for an immediate and permanent ceasefire and the release of all hostages and unlawful Palestinian detainees.”
The UK Foreign Office has been contacted for a comment.
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