UN monitoring group warns famine is unfolding in Gaza
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🗓️ 29 July 2025
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification has said what it calls "the worse case scenario of famine" is now unfolding in Gaza. The UN's World Food Programme says that the unfolding disaster is reminiscent of famines seen in Ethiopia and Biafra, Nigeria, in the last century.
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(Photo: Palestinians gather to receive food from a charity kitchen. CREDIT: REUTERS/Khamis Al-Rifi)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to NewsHour. It's coming to you live from the BBC World Service |
| 0:07.7 | Studios in central London. I'm Tim Franks. We're beginning with a new insight into what's |
| 0:13.6 | happening in Gaza, an insight that's blunt and searing, and one delivered by one of the heaviest |
| 0:20.5 | hitting outfits there is. |
| 0:22.8 | The IPC is the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification to give it its full, |
| 0:30.0 | slightly bewildering title. |
| 0:32.1 | In short, it's a monitoring group composed of UN agencies, NGOs and other experts in the field. |
| 0:38.4 | And today, it brought out its latest report into Gaza. |
| 0:42.9 | Here's how it starts. |
| 0:44.6 | The news our colleague has voiced the words. |
| 0:47.3 | The worst-case scenario of famine is currently playing out in the Gaza Strip. |
| 0:52.6 | Conflict and displacement have intensified, |
| 0:55.3 | and access to food and other essential items and services |
| 0:58.4 | has plummeted to unprecedented levels. |
| 1:01.6 | Latest data indicates that famine thresholds |
| 1:04.3 | have been reached for food consumption in most of the Gaza Strip |
| 1:07.6 | and for acute malnutrition in Gaza City. |
| 1:11.3 | One in three Garsens are going without food for days at a time. |
| 1:15.2 | The report continues. |
| 1:16.8 | And as for the new mechanism backed by Israel and the US for food distribution, |
| 1:22.0 | the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, the IPC report is scathing. |
| 1:34.3 | Gaza Humanitarian Foundation claims to have distributed over 89 million meals from four distribution sites, |
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