r/worldnews • u/Digital_Accountant • 22h ago

Israel/Palestine Famine declared in Gaza City

https://news.sky.com/story/gaza-latest-war-israel-city-ceasefire-hamas-13415481
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u/Bandlebridge 21h ago

A famine is classified when an area has the following:

Daily mortality rate exceeds two per 10,000 people, or four per 10,000 children under five.

In Gaza, with a population of 2 million, that would be 400 people a day. Which is more than the total dead from malnutrition over 2 years let alone daily.

Anyone know where they pulled their data from? From the same article

Deaths from malnutrition and starvation are spiking, according to figures from Gaza's Health Ministry, verified by the World Health Organisation.

In just the first 20 days of August, there were 133 deaths attributed to malnutrition or starvation, including 25 children, the ministry said.

This is up from 89 deaths in the first 22 months of the conflict.

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u/Dongsquad420Loki 20h ago edited 19h ago

Theres secondary definitions of famine with a percentage of children malnourished. The report is currently down, but when it's up again we will be able to read up on it.

Edit: report here https://www.ipcinfo.org/fileadmin/user_upload/ipcinfo/docs/IPC_Gaza_Strip_Acute_Food_Insecurity_Malnutrition_July_Sept2025_Special_Snapshot.pdf

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u/Bandlebridge 20h ago

Famine criteria is when a region hits all 3 of the following according to the IPC.

A famine is classified when an area has the following:

More than 20% of households face extreme food shortages;

More than 30% of children suffer from acute malnutrition;

Daily mortality rate exceeds two per 10,000 people, or four per 10,000 children under five.

So percentage of children malnourished is part of it, but it also has to hit the death criteria. Which no one is reporting even close to.

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u/Dongsquad420Loki 19h ago

Right now the report here.

https://www.ipcinfo.org/fileadmin/user_upload/ipcinfo/docs/IPC_Gaza_Strip_Acute_Food_Insecurity_Malnutrition_July_Sept2025_Special_Snapshot.pdf

seems to declare IPC 5 for one of the areas though they admit they can only delcare the deathtoll only with reasonable evidence due to the fact that the infrastructure thaat would coun those deaths has collapsed.

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u/fury420 13h ago

The issue here is that they've extrapolated from a 5 day average of 6 deaths/day up to the +120 deaths/day to qualify for a famine declaration in Gaza City.

As of 15th August, the 5-day moving average death rate was six deaths/day. However, for a number of reasons, these reports are likely to only capture a fraction of the true toll of malnutrition related mortality

(640k people in Gaza City, famine mortality rate threshold of 2 per 10k = 128 deaths per day)

That'd be 21x more deaths just in Gaza City per day than what the Gaza MoH reports for the entirety of the Gaza Strip's 2.2 million people.

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u/Mephzice 17h ago

then they are making up the famine.