Famine doesn’t arrive all at once. It unfolds in stages, slow, cruel, and devastating. And right now, Gaza is not on the edge of famine. It is living through it.

According to the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), famine is defined through a five-phase scale:

1. Minimal – Adequate food access, with minimal risk to health.

2. Stressed – Some households begin to face pressure and reduce the quality or quantity of their food.

3. Crisis – Families start to skip meals and sell essential items to survive.

4. Emergency – Widespread food shortages lead to malnutrition, disease, and displacement.

5. Catastrophe/Famine – Starvation becomes widespread. People, especially children, begin to die.

In Gaza, 345,000 people are already in Phase 5: Catastrophe. Another 876,000 are in Phase 4, and the rest remain in Crisis. This means the entire population is suffering, and no one is spared.

At the beginning of 2025, aid organisations projected that over 71,000 children would become acutely malnourished. But the reality has moved faster than the world’s response.

More than 76 children have died from starvation since the full blockade began in March 2025. Many more are collapsing from hunger, unable to access bread, water, or even clean shelter.

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