Photograph: Eyad Baba/AFP via Getty ImagesThe Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) has reported that there is no longer famine in Gaza, but the situation remains critical. World Health Organisation (WHO) chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has warned on X that efforts to avert famine in Gaza remain “extremely fragile”. The latest assessment by the IPC comes four months after it reported that 514,000 people – nearly a quarter of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip – were experiencing famine, a finding rejected by Israel. In the first week of December, 140 aid trucks a day from UN convoys reached Gaza, UN agencies reported. The Israeli military body Cogat, which controls access to Gaza, has argued that the number of trucks with food aid entering each week go beyond requirements.

Source: The Irish Times December 23, 2025 10:37 UTC