Gaza is at “critical risk of famine”, with the entire population facing a food crisis after more than two months of an Israeli aid blockade, a food security monitor warned.

Twenty-two percent of Gaza’s 2.4 million people are facing a humanitarian “catastrophe”, while the entire population is at risk of a food crisis “or worse” by September, the UN- and NGO-backed Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) said on Monday in a report.

It said there had been a “major deterioration” in the situation since its last assessment in October 2024.

Gaza famine risk grows amid intense Israeli aggression — monitorUN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres alarmed by the IPC analysis saying, “Famine looms. This is intolerable. Crossing points must open, bureaucratic hurdles removed, and law restored for UN agencies to deliver lifesaving aid.”

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“The entire population is facing high levels of acute food insecurity, with half a million people – one in five – facing starvation,” it said.

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