As Israeli forces advance, the Palestinians flee Gaza city
According to Gaza city officials, Palestinians began evacuating several areas of the city as Israeli forces began the early stages of planned ground attacks.
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UN, Aug. 22 (Reuters) – Fungi will hit Gaza’s region and likely spread next month, with a global hunger monitor set to allow more humanitarian aid to the war-torn Palestinian enclave, escalating pressure on Israel.
The integrated food security stage classification system said 514,000 people (nearly a quarter of Gaza’s Palestinians) have experienced hunger, and is expected to increase to 641,000 by the end of September.
Approximately 280,000 of those people are in the northern region covering Gaza city – known as Governor of Gaza – is the first resolve in such images, saying the IPC is hungry. The rest is at Deir Al-Balah and Khan Younis. This is the central and southern regions where IPCs will starve by the end of next month.
Israel has dismissed the report as “false and bias,” along with military agencies coordinating delivery to Gaza, saying the IPC investigated it based on “partial data derived from Hamasterolist organizations.”
Areas categorized as hunger, at least 20% of people must suffer from extreme food shortages. One in three people are acute malnutrition, and two out of 10,000 people die of starvation or malnutrition or illness.
Even if these thresholds are not yet classified as starvation, such as starvation, IPCs can still be determined to suffer from the state of starvation described as starvation, poverty, and death.
UN Human Rights Director Volkar Tarq on Friday said hunger in Gaza was a direct result of the Israeli government’s actions, warning that deaths from starvation could be a war crime.
The IPC analysis comes after Britain, Canada, Australia and many European countries stated that the humanitarian crisis had reached “unusual levels” after nearly two years of war between Israel and Palestinian militant Hamas.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has long been warning of “magnificent humanitarian catastrophes” in enclaves of over 2 million people.
US President Donald Trump last month said many people were starving and was in conflict with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Israel controls access in Gaza
Israel controls all access to Gaza. Kogat, the Israeli military unit that oversees the flow of aid, said on Friday that the IPC report ignored Israeli data on the delivery of aid and overlooked the recent increase in food supply to the territory.
“Kogat has firmly rejected hunger claims in the Gaza Strip, particularly Gaza city,” authorities said, denounced the report as “non-expert.”
The United Nations has long been assisted by Gaza and has called for obstacles to distributing it throughout the war zone, and has denounced its obstacles to Israel and lawlessness. Israel is critical of the unpublished operation and accuses Hamas of stealing aid.
The IPC said the analysis released on Friday only covers people living in Gaza, Deial Bala and Khan Yunis. Northern Gaza provinces could not be classified due to access restrictions and data shortages, and the remaining population in the South Rafa area was excluded as it was largely uninhabited.
The fifth IPC has determined starvation in the last 14 years by an initiative that includes 21 aid groups, UN agencies, regional organizations funded by the European Union, Germany, the UK and Canada.
IPC has previously evaluated the Somalia region in 2011, South Sudan in 2017 and 2020, and Sudan in 2024. Rather than declare hunger, the IPC says it is offering an analysis instead for the government and others to do so.
A Reuters/Ipsos poll released this week found that 65% of Americans believe the US should help people who are hunger for Gaza.
Israel has long relied on its most powerful ally, the United States, for military aid and diplomatic support. Erosion of US public support will be a worrying sign for Israel as it faces an unresolved conflict with Hamas militants in Gaza as well as Iran, an enemy with the local arch.
According to Israeli tally, the war in Gaza was sparked on October 7, 2023, when Hamas killed 1,200 people and took about 250 hostages in southern Israel. Since then, Israel’s military campaign has killed more than 62,000 Palestinians, according to Gaza Health Authorities.
The United States, Qatar and Egypt are trying to mediate the end of the conflict.
(Reporting by Michelle Nichols, Editing by Don Durfee, Stephen Coates, Crispian Balmer, Editing by William MacLean)
