{"id":307287,"date":"2025-05-12T14:25:22","date_gmt":"2025-05-12T18:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?post_type=document&#038;p=307287"},"modified":"2025-05-19T12:39:22","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T16:39:22","slug":"wfp-unicef-risk-of-famine-across-all-of-gaza-new-report-says","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/wfp-unicef-risk-of-famine-across-all-of-gaza-new-report-says\/","title":{"rendered":"WFP &amp; Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵICEF: Risk of famine across all of Gaza, new report says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>12 May 2025<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><strong>Click below to read the latest IPC Analysis Report:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"Dt7Q4F6R6d\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/gaza-famine-special-snapshot-april-september-2025\/\">Gaza: With famine looming, FAO urges immediate access to save livelihoods and food production &#8211; IPC Acute Food Insecurity and Acute Malnutrition Special Snapshot (April &#8211; September 2025)<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Gaza: With famine looming, FAO urges immediate access to save livelihoods and food production &#8211; IPC Acute Food Insecurity and Acute Malnutrition Special Snapshot (April &#8211; September 2025)&#8221; &#8212; Question of Palestine\" src=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/gaza-famine-special-snapshot-april-september-2025\/embed\/#?secret=RqbieLpJOt#?secret=Dt7Q4F6R6d\" data-secret=\"Dt7Q4F6R6d\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div class=\"summary mb4\">Populations across the Gaza Strip are at risk of famine as fighting has surged again, border crossings are still closed, and food is dangerously scarce. Hunger and malnutrition have intensified sharply since all aid was blocked from entering on 2 March, reversing the clear humanitarian gains seen during the ceasefire earlier this year.<\/div>\n<p><span dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"EN-GB\">According to the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) snapshot released today, 470,000 people in Gaza are facing catastrophic hunger (IPC Phase 5), and the entire population is experiencing acute food insecurity. The report also projects an alarming 71,000 children and more than 17,000 mothers will need urgent treatment for acute malnutrition. At the beginning of 2025, agencies estimated 60,000 children would need treatment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"EN-GB\">\u201cFamilies in Gaza are starving while the food they need is sitting at the border. We can\u2019t get it to them because of the renewed conflict and the total ban on humanitarian aid imposed in early March,\u201d said the Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ World Food Programme\u2019s Executive Director Cindy McCain. \u201cIt\u2019s imperative that the international community acts urgently to get aid flowing into Gaza again. If we wait until after a famine is confirmed, it will already be too late for many people.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"EN-GB\">The IPC snapshot for Gaza projects that renewed military operations, the ongoing complete blockade, and the critical lack of supplies needed for survival could push food insecurity, acute malnutrition and mortality levels past the famine thresholds in the coming months.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"EN-GB\">The vast majority of children in Gaza are facing extreme food deprivation as confirmed by 17 Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ agencies and NGOs in the IPC report. Coupled with the severely limited access to health services and critical shortages of clean water and sanitation, rapid increases in acute malnutrition are expected in North Gaza, Gaza and Rafah governorates.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"EN-GB\">\u201cThe risk of famine does not arrive suddenly. It unfolds in places where access to food is blocked, where health systems are decimated, and where children are left without the bare minimum to survive.\u00a0Hunger and acute malnutrition are a daily reality for children across the Gaza Strip,\u201d said Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell.\u00a0 \u201cWe have repeatedly warned of this trajectory and call again on all parties to prevent a catastrophe.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"EN-GB\">Border crossings into Gaza have been closed for over two months &#8211; the longest the population has ever faced \u2013 causing food prices in markets to spike to astronomical levels, putting what little food is available out of reach for most families.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"EN-GB\">At the same time, more than 116,000 metric tons of food assistance \u2013 enough to feed one million people for up to four months &#8211; is already positioned in aid corridors, ready to be brought in. Hundreds of pallets of lifesaving nutrition treatments are also prepositioned for entry. United Nations agencies stand ready to work with all stakeholders and food security partners to bring in these food and nutrition supplies and distribute it as soon as borders reopen for principled aid delivery.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"EN-GB\">The Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ World Food Programme and Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵICEF remain on the ground in Gaza ready to deliver lifesaving aid according to required humanitarian principles.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"EN-GB\">WFP depleted its last food stocks to support hot meals kitchens for families on 25 April. Almost a month earlier, all 25 WFP-supported bakeries closed as wheat flour and cooking fuel ran out. The same week, WFP food parcels for families \u2013 with two weeks of food rations &#8211; were exhausted. Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵICEF continues to deliver water and critical nutrition services but its stocks for preventing malnutrition have run out and supplies for the therapeutic treatment of acute malnutrition are critically low.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"EN-GB\">Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵICEF and WFP urge all parties to prioritize the needs of civilians and allow aid to enter Gaza immediately and uphold their obligations under international humanitarian law.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; 12 May 2025 Click below to read the latest IPC Analysis Report: Gaza: With famine looming, FAO urges immediate access to save livelihoods and food production &#8211; IPC Acute Food Insecurity and Acute Malnutrition Special Snapshot (April &#8211; September 2025) Populations across the Gaza Strip are at risk of famine as fighting has surged <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/wfp-unicef-risk-of-famine-across-all-of-gaza-new-report-says\/\"> [&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"country":[],"document-category":[1329,1338],"document-source":[2105,2109],"committee-meeting":[],"document-subject":[2517,1769,1945,2057,2005,6870,1745],"entity":[1729],"document-language":[6542],"class_list":["post-307287","document","type-document","status-publish","hentry","document-category-press-release","document-category-statement","document-source-united-nations-childrens-fund-unicef","document-source-world-food-programme-wfp","document-subject-access-and-movement","document-subject-armed-conflict","document-subject-assistance","document-subject-food","document-subject-gaza-strip","document-subject-hunger","document-subject-refugees-and-displaced-persons","entity-united-nations-system","document-language-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/307287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/document"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/307287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":307513,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/307287\/revisions\/307513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=307287"},{"taxonomy":"document-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-category?post=307287"},{"taxonomy":"document-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-source?post=307287"},{"taxonomy":"committee-meeting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/committee-meeting?post=307287"},{"taxonomy":"document-subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-subject?post=307287"},{"taxonomy":"entity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entity?post=307287"},{"taxonomy":"document-language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-language?post=307287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}