Brief: UN monitor declares Gaza famine as Israel advances in Gaza city
The Take
Al Jazeera
4.7 • 748 Ratings
🗓️ 24 August 2025
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
This week: Israel continued to attack north Gaza. A UN-backed agency declared famine in Gaza as Israeli soldiers pushed further into Gaza City. It is day 688 of the war in Gaza, where at least 62,622 Palestinians have been killed.
In this episode:
- Hani Mahmoud, Al Jazeera Correspondent
- Taeq Abu Azzoum, (@TareqAzzom) Al Jazeera Correspondent
- Ibrahim al Khalili, (@hema.alkhalili) Al Jazeera Correspondent
Episode credits:
This episode was produced and mixed by David Enders. Our sound designer is Alex Roldan. Our lead of audience development and engagement is Aya Elmileik and Munera AlDosari is our engagement producer. Alexandra Locke is The Take’s executive producer. Ney Alvarez is Al Jazeera's head of audio.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm David Enders, and this is the take. |
| 0:05.4 | As Israel's war on Gaza, Lebanon, and Syria continues, were coming to you on Sundays with a weekly roundup. |
| 0:12.9 | This week, a UN-backed agency declared famine in Gaza as Israeli soldiers pushed further into Gaza City. |
| 0:22.9 | Today is Sunday, August 24. It is day 68 of the war in Gaza, where at least 62,622 Palestinians |
| 0:34.2 | have been killed. |
| 0:46.1 | On Friday, the International Food Security Phase classification, or IPC, a UN-backed organization that studies food insecurity, announced that Palestinians in and around Gaza City are now |
| 0:51.6 | experiencing famine caused by Israel's blockade of aid there. |
| 0:56.1 | At least 281 Palestinians in Gaza have died from starvation so far. |
| 1:02.3 | Al Jazeera's Hani Mahmoud reported from Gaza City. |
| 1:06.0 | It's not a surprise to see this report. |
| 1:08.6 | We've seen it unfolding from a year ago. The bunch of the |
| 1:13.1 | hardship and the challenges on the ground appeared due to the ongoing blockade of the crossing. So |
| 1:18.9 | not just for us, for the majority of people, they have been living and enduring this harsh |
| 1:24.3 | reality for the past 22 months. Let's remember that from the opening weeks of this genocide, |
| 1:31.8 | the Israeli military imposed a strict blockade on the crossings |
| 1:36.9 | and only allowing a trickle amount of food |
| 1:39.8 | that keeping people on more of a life support system |
| 1:43.7 | that is not working most of the time |
| 1:45.6 | leaving hundreds of thousands of people hungry we're still seeing people going hungry |
| 1:50.3 | still seeing people fainting in the streets people are not getting enough food we're still |
| 1:54.8 | seeing children with their mothers roaming rubble and garbage filled the streets searching for anything in order |
| 2:03.1 | to survive these horrible conditions. |
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