| No images? Click here  Friday, 19 December 2025 MEDIA ADVISORY IPC Gaza Strip Food Insecurity and Malnutrition Alert Following the ceasefire declared on 10 October 2025, food security and nutrition have improved in the Gaza Strip compared to the August 2025 analysis, which detected Famine. Despite these improvements, in October-November 2025, the majority of the population continued to face high levels of acute food insecurity, including over 500,000 people facing Emergency (IPC Phase 4) and more than 100,000 experiencing Catastrophe (IPC Phase 5). Further, acute malnutrition is at Critical levels (IPC AMN Phase 4) in Gaza Governorate and Serious (IPC AMN Phase 3) in Deir al-Balah and Khan Younis governorates. In the coming months, the situation is expected to remain severe, though the population facing the most extreme conditions, classified in IPC Phase 5 (Catastrophe), is projected to decline to around 1,900 people through mid-April 2026. Under a worst-case scenario, which would include renewed hostilities and a halt in humanitarian and commercial inflows, the entire Gaza Strip is at risk of Famine through mid-April 2026. The situation remains highly fragile and is contingent on sustained, expanded, and consistent humanitarian and commercial access. ************ The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) is an innovative multi-partner initiative for improving food security and nutrition analysis and decision-making. By using the IPC classification and analytical approach, Governments, UN Agencies, NGOs, civil society and other relevant actors, work together to determine the severity and magnitude of acute and chronic food insecurity, and acute malnutrition situations in a country, according to internationally recognised scientific standards. The main goal of the IPC is to provide decision-makers with a rigorous, evidence- and consensus-based analysis of food insecurity and acute malnutrition situations, to inform emergency responses as well as medium- and long-term policy and programming. WHO is a member of the IPC.  Media contact: mediainquiries@who.int  You are receiving this NO-REPLY email because you are included on a WHO mail list.  |
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