The United Nations has officially declared a famine in Gaza City and its surrounding areas. This is the first time that some place in West Asia is said to be famine. The report of Integrated Food Security Face Classification says that the situation here has become so serious that about 5 lakh people are facing the threat of destructive hunger and death. In such a situation, let us tell you today how much death due to starvation is declared.

When is the famine declared

Three conditions are required to be fulfilled to declare the word United Nations famine.

• In which the first condition does not have enough food with at least 20% of the population of a place.
• At the same time, another condition is that in every 10,000 people, two people are dying of hunger daily, only then a famine is declared.
• Apart from this, the third condition is that more than 30 percent of the children should be malnourished at that place.

When these three conditions are fulfilled, it is assumed that starvation has now reached the situation of broader deaths. At the same time, a famine is declared at any place in such circumstances.

Ghaza’s terrible picture

According to the UN report, Gaza Governor, which is about 20% on the entire strip, has already reached the IPC Face 5 i.e. Famine confirmed level. Here more than half a million people are deprived of food medicines and drinking water. 98% of the agricultural sector of Gaza is either completely destroyed or out of reach. Apart from this, Livestock is over and there is a ban on fishing. In March 2025, Israeli completely stopped food supply in Gaza. There was some relief in May but by then the condition had deteriorated a lot.

UN warning

The UN has said that if there was no immediate ceasefire and human help is not provided to Gaza, then the number of people who died of hunger will increase manifold in the coming weeks. UN General Secretary Antonio Guterres has called it humanity failure and fully man-made disaster.

Israel’s refusal

However, Israel has rejected the United Nations report. Israel’s Foreign Ministry says that there is no famine in Gaza. There has reached a large amount of assistance in recent weeks and the prices of food items have fallen. Israel claims that this report is a document prepared under political pressure.

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On Friday (August 22, 2025) amidst the Israeli-Pilistine dispute, the United Nations officially announced a famine in Gaza, the first famine in the Middle East. According to the expert, 5,00,000 people are facing terrible starvation in this famine.

United Nations Assistance Head Tom Fletcher said that food was not able to reach these areas of Palestine due to Israeli barriers, otherwise this famine could be stopped. At the same time, Israeli’s Foreign Ministry gave its response, reversing this statement of UN.

IPC report based on Hamas’s lie

Criticizing the report of the IPC panel in Rome, the Israeli Foreign Ministry said that this report is based on the lies of Hamas spread through selfish organizations. He said that there is no famine in Gaza.

The IPC panel of Rome said on Friday that the famine has been confirmed in the province and city of Gaza, which is about 20 percent of the Gaza Strip by 15 August 2025. He said that by the end of September, the impact of the famine is expected to be increased to the Der al-Balah and Khan Unis provinces, which will engulf about two-thirds of Palestine.

More than 5 lakh people victims of starvation in Gaza Strip

The IPC panel report said that after 22 months of fierce war, more than 5 lakh people in Gaza Strip are facing terrible conditions like starvation and death and now by the end of September, this number is expected to increase to 641,000, which is about one third of the total population.

Citing this report, the IPC said that this has been due to large -scale displacement and ban in Gaza due to the war between terrible starvation, Israel and Hamas. In the beginning of March after the war began between the two countries, Israeli banned the support supply in Gaza, causing a huge shortage of food, medicine and goods there.

Agriculture, animal husbandry and fisheries destroyed in Gaza

The IPC said that the estimated 98 percent of the agricultural land in Gaza Strip has either been destroyed, has become inaccessible or both have become. Livestock is destroyed and fishing has been banned. Apart from this, the health system has also deteriorated badly, while there has been a huge decrease in access to safe drinking water and adequate hygiene.

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