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Claim: Gaza has “the highest number of people facing catastrophic hunger ever recorded by the Integrated Food Security Classification system — anywhere, anytime.” (António Guterres, 2024-03-18)
Evidence (2024-03-22): An international committee of experts issued a dire warning about Gaza this week: Famine is now "imminent" in northern Gaza and a risk across the entire territory. Yet they also found that about 30% of the population – some 667,000 people – are currently experiencing "catastrophic" levels of hunger, meaning those individuals have so little food they are effectively starving. So why stop short of declaring the situation a famine already? And who are these experts that get to decide? [...] It's also not enough for either FEWS NET or the IPC to find that the three criteria for famine have been met. Before they can formally classify a location as being in phase five, they are obligated to submit their evidence to a review committee of experts specially convened for that purpose by the IPC. In the case of the latest reports on Gaza, IPC and FEWS NET had produced separate though very similar analyses, and the review committee considered and signed off on both simultaneously. [...] Indeed, the IPC's report on Gaza estimates that in northern Gaza about 70% of people are now facing "catastrophic" levels of food insecurity. The report also finds that "it's highly likely" the threshold for acute malnutrition among children has just been reached, and it concludes that unless urgent steps are taken, the death rate will rise above the famine threshold by May.
Claim: Gaza has “the highest number of people facing catastrophic hunger ever recorded by the Integrated Food Security Classification system — anywhere, anytime.” (António Guterres, 2024-03-18)
Evidence (2024-03-19): "This is the highest number of people facing catastrophic hunger ever recorded by the Integrated Food Security Classification system – anywhere, anytime," he added. [...] Data indicates that the "entire population" of Gaza – some 2.3 million people – are enduring high levels of "acute" food insecurity. This includes 1.11 million suffering from "catastrophic" food insecurity - IPC Phase 5. [...] Compared to the last IPC analysis in December, acute food insecurity in the Gaza Strip has "deepened and widened", FAO noted, with 79 per cent more Gazans likely "sliding into catastrophic levels of hunger" from mid-February to mid-March and 92 per cent more expected to do so between now and July.
Claim: Gaza has “the highest number of people facing catastrophic hunger ever recorded by the Integrated Food Security Classification system — anywhere, anytime.” (António Guterres, 2024-03-18)
Evidence (2024-03-28): Using the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification system, the report estimated that from mid-March to mid-July, 1.1 million people — about half of Gaza's population — will face "catastrophic" food insecurity, when starvation, death and "extremely critical acute malnutrition levels" are evident. [...] He’s right about the IPC system’s data. A March report using the IPC system found that 677,000 Gazans currently face catastrophic acute food insecurity and projected that 1.1 million people are expected to face such acute food insecurity from March 16 to July 15. [...] Integrated Food Security Phase Classification, GAZA STRIP: Famine is imminent as 1.1 million people, half of Gaza, experience catastrophic food insecurity, accessed March 20, 2024
Claim: Gaza has “the highest number of people facing catastrophic hunger ever recorded by the Integrated Food Security Classification system — anywhere, anytime.” (António Guterres, 2024-03-18)
Evidence (2024-03-18): "The latest report on food insecurity in Gaza is an appalling indictment of conditions on the ground for civilians. The world’s leading experts on food insecurity clearly document that famine in the northern part of Gaza is imminent. More than half of all Palestinians in Gaza –1.1 million people– have completely exhausted their food supplies and are facing catastrophic hunger, according to the report." [...] Addressing reporters today (18 Mar) Guterres said, "The latest report on food insecurity in Gaza is an appalling indictment of conditions on the ground for civilians. " According to the report, more than half of all Palestinians in Gaza –1.1 million people– have completely exhausted their food supplies and are facing catastrophic hunger.
Claim: Gaza has “the highest number of people facing catastrophic hunger ever recorded by the Integrated Food Security Classification system — anywhere, anytime.” (António Guterres, 2024-03-18)
Evidence (2024-09-05): The Mid-Year update of the Global Report on Food Crises (GFRC) 2024, reveals that the number of people facing, or projected to face Catastrophe, an IPC/CH phase 5 classification identifying extreme food crisis at household level, is the highest since the first GFRC had provided a global assessment back in 2016. The JRC has contributed to the production of data and has provided technical and advisory support. [...] The situation continues to be very worrying as the number of people facing, or projected to face Catastrophe more than doubled, from 705,000 in five countries/territories in 2023 to 1.9 million in four countries/territories in 2024. These record numbers are driven by two major ongoing conflicts, in the Gaza Strip and in Sudan. [...] - The Gaza Strip (Palestine) remains the most severe food crisis in the history of the Global Report on Food Crises (GRFC), with almost all of the 2.2 million residents still in urgent need of food and livelihood assistance between March and April 2024. The severity of the crisis has intensified, with half of the population in Catastrophe (IPC Phase 5) during this period, up from a quarter in December 2023–February 2024.
Claim: Gaza has “the highest number of people facing catastrophic hunger ever recorded by the Integrated Food Security Classification system — anywhere, anytime.” (António Guterres, 2024-03-18)
Evidence (2023-12-21): The entire 2.3 million population of Gaza is facing crisis levels of hunger and the risk of famine is increasing each day, a United Nations-backed report says. The proportion of households in Gaza affected by high levels of acute food insecurity is the largest ever recorded globally, according to the report by the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) published on Thursday. [...] The report by 23 UN and nongovernmental agencies found that the entire population in Gaza is in a food crisis with 576,600 people at catastrophic – or starvation – levels.
Claim: Gaza has “the highest number of people facing catastrophic hunger ever recorded by the Integrated Food Security Classification system — anywhere, anytime.” (António Guterres, 2024-03-18)
Evidence (2024-03-18): Half of Gazans are experiencing "catastrophic" hunger, with famine projected to hit the north of the territory by May without urgent intervention, a United Nations-backed food security assessment warned on Monday, March 18. [...] This amounts to around 1.1 million people "struggling with catastrophic hunger and starvation", according to the WFP. It added: "This is the highest number of people ever recorded as facing catastrophic hunger" under the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) partnership, which published its latest report on Monday. [...] "Famine is imminent in the northern governorates and projected to occur anytime between mid-March and May 2024," the IPC report said of Gaza. "All evidence points towards a major acceleration of deaths and malnutrition. Waiting for a retrospective famine classification before acting is indefensible," it said.
Claim: Gaza has “the highest number of people facing catastrophic hunger ever recorded by the Integrated Food Security Classification system — anywhere, anytime.” (António Guterres, 2024-03-18)
Evidence (2024-01-16): GENEVA (16 January 2024) – Gazans now make up 80 per cent of all people facing famine or catastrophic hunger worldwide, marking an unparalleled humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip amid Israel’s continued bombardment and siege, according to UN human rights experts. "Currently every single person in Gaza is hungry, a quarter of the population are starving and struggling to find food and drinkable water, and famine is imminent. Pregnant women are not receiving adequate nutrition and healthcare, putting their lives at risk. In addition all children under five – 335,000 – are at high risk of severe malnutrition as the risk of famine conditions continues to increase, a whole generation is now in danger of suffering from stunting," said the experts. Stunting occurs when young children’s growth is hampered due to lack of adequate nourishment and causes irreparable physical and cognitive impairments. This will undermine the learning capacity of an entire generation. Nowhere is safe in Gaza. Since 9 October, Israel declared and imposed a "total siege" on Gaza, depriving 2.3 million Palestinians of water, food, fuel, medicine, and medical supplies, this against the backdrop of a 17-year Israeli blockade, which before this war made approximately half of the people in Gaza food insecure and more than 80 percent reliant on humanitarian aid.
Claim: Gaza has “the highest number of people facing catastrophic hunger ever recorded by the Integrated Food Security Classification system — anywhere, anytime.” (António Guterres, 2024-03-18)
Evidence (2024-03-18): The latest report on food insecurity in Gaza is an appalling indictment of conditions on the ground for civilians. The world’s leading experts on food insecurity clearly document that famine in the northern part of Gaza is imminent. More than half of all Palestinians in Gaza –1.1 million people– have completely exhausted their food supplies and are facing catastrophic hunger, according to the report.
Claim: Gaza has “the highest number of people facing catastrophic hunger ever recorded by the Integrated Food Security Classification system — anywhere, anytime.” (António Guterres, 2024-03-18)
Evidence (2024-03-18): "This is the highest number of people facing catastrophic hunger ever recorded by the Integrated Food Security Classification system –anywhere, anytime", he added. [...] IPC forecasts are compiled from on-the-ground assessments which humanitarians then use to respond to the most at-risk individuals. Data indicates that the "entire population" of Gaza – some 2.3 million people – are enduring high levels of "acute" food insecurity. This includes 1.11 million suffering from "catastrophic" food insecurity - IPC Phase 5. Compared to the last IPC analysis in December, acute food insecurity in the Gaza Strip has "deepened and widened", FAO noted, with 79 per cent more Gazans likely "sliding into catastrophic levels of hunger" from mid-February to mid-March, and 92 per cent more expected to do so between now and July.
Claim: Gaza has “the highest number of people facing catastrophic hunger ever recorded by the Integrated Food Security Classification system — anywhere, anytime.” (António Guterres, 2024-03-18)
Evidence (2024-03-28): 19. The Court notes that, on 18 March 2024, an updated report on food insecurity in the Gaza Strip was issued by the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification Global Initiative (IPC Global Initiative), a global partnership of organizations including, inter alia, the World Food Programme (WFP), the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the World Health Organization (WHO). According to this report: "The IPC acute food insecurity analysis conducted in December 2023 warned of a risk that Famine may occur by the end of May 2024 if an immediate cessation of hostilities and sustained access for the provision of essential supplies and services to the population did not take place. Since then, the conditions necessary to prevent Famine have not been met and the latest evidence confirms that Famine is imminent in the northern governorates and projected to occur anytime between mid-March and May 2024." (IPC Global Initiative, "Special Brief: the Gaza Strip", 18 March 2024.) [...] "In December, it was projected that the entire population of 2.2 million people in Gaza would face high levels of acute food insecurity by February 2024 — the highest share of people facing that level of food insecurity ever recorded worldwide. . . .
Claim: Gaza has “the highest number of people facing catastrophic hunger ever recorded by the Integrated Food Security Classification system — anywhere, anytime.” (António Guterres, 2024-03-18)
Evidence (2024-03-28): The report found that 1.1 million people in Gaza are expected to face catastrophic levels of hunger and risk famine, the highest number of people in that category ever recorded since the beginning of the current classification system. "This is the highest number of people facing catastrophic hunger ever recorded by the Integrated Food Security Classification system—anywhere, anytime," UN Secretary-General António Guterres said in a news briefing. Before Israel’s assault on Gaza, less than 1 percent of children in Gaza under five were acutely malnourished. But that figure has surged to between 12.4 and 16.5 percent. The UN-backed report concluded, "Famine is imminent in the northern governorates and projected to occur anytime between mid-March and May 2024."
Claim: Gaza has “the highest number of people facing catastrophic hunger ever recorded by the Integrated Food Security Classification system — anywhere, anytime.” (António Guterres, 2024-03-18)
Evidence (2024-03-18): "This new report shows that the catastrophic levels of hunger and starvation in Gaza are the highest ever recorded on the IPC scale, both in terms of number of people and percentage of the population. Never before have we seen such rapid deterioration into widespread starvation. [...] - The number of people in Gaza who were in IPC5 (Catastrophe) was 530,000, and according to the projection period (which starts mid-March), the number rose to 1.1 million, which is a 92% rise. Source: IPC Report, March 18, 2024 - The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) is an innovative multi-partner initiative of 19 organizations, including Oxfam, and intergovernmental institutions. The IPC initiative provides food security and nutrition analysis to inform decision-making. - According to the IPC classification, the entire population of Gaza is currently facing high levels of acute food insecurity – or IPC 3 (Crisis) and above. This includes half of the population (about 1.11 million) experiencing catastrophic food insecurity (IPC Phase 5, Catastrophe). This is the highest ever recorded number of people in IPC Phase 5, Catastrophe), both in terms of percent of the population and total number of people.
Claim: Gaza has “the highest number of people facing catastrophic hunger ever recorded by the Integrated Food Security Classification system — anywhere, anytime.” (António Guterres, 2024-03-18)
Evidence (2024-03-26): In the last five months, Israel’s unparalleled attack and siege on Gaza have resulted in a dire humanitarian catastrophe, with over 75% of the population displaced and forcibly relocated to southern Gaza. Gaza’s residents are experiencing the highest levels of hunger, with parents scavenging through garbage heaps to nourish their children, skipping meals, and even resorting to eating animal feed to stay alive. Every day, children, women, and men across Gaza are killed by Israeli military attacks, as well as by starvation, scarcity of clean water, inadequate access to medications and healthcare services, and the absence of basic hygiene conditions. The situation is particularly grave in the northern Gaza Strip, where 300,000 people are experiencing severe malnutrition – which has already resulted in the deaths of dozens, primarily children. According to UN and Integrated Food Security Classification (IPC) reports, over two million people in Gaza face crisis levels of food insecurity, with over a million suffering from "catastrophic" food insecurity – the most severe phase in the IPC index. Twenty-seven children have already reportedly died of malnutrition and dehydration. The toll is expected to increase, with numerous children facing enduring consequences on both their physical and mental development. Last week, UN Secretary-General António Guterres described the disaster in Gaza as the worst hunger crisis ever recorded by the IPC—"anywhere, anytime." Since its establishment in 2004, the IPC has declared a famine only twice: once in Somalia in 2011 and then again in South Sudan in 2017.
Claim: Gaza has “the highest number of people facing catastrophic hunger ever recorded by the Integrated Food Security Classification system — anywhere, anytime.” (António Guterres, 2024-03-18)
Evidence (2024-03-20): The IPC assessment notes that 1.1 million people are expected to face catastrophic levels of hunger and risk famine in Gaza, the highest number of people in that category ever recorded since the beginning of the current classification system. "This is the highest number of people facing catastrophic hunger ever recorded by the Integrated Food Security Classification system—anywhere, anytime," U.N. Secretary General António Guterres said in a news briefing Monday. [...] The report found that every single person in the Gaza Strip lives with some level of food insecurity. The report projected that while the entirety of the Gaza Strip is currently in the "emergency" phase of food insecurity, the entirety of Northern Gaza will be in famine within a matter of months.
Claim: Gaza has “the highest number of people facing catastrophic hunger ever recorded by the Integrated Food Security Classification system — anywhere, anytime.” (António Guterres, 2024-03-18)
Evidence (2024-01-03): The bottom line is that, in Gaza, pretty much everybody is hungry at the moment. In the food-security-analysis business, we do something called I.P.C., or Integrated Phase Classification. This is an exercise that has about twenty-three partners, including nineteen U.N. agencies and international N.G.O.s and about four donors. This group analyzes the food-security situation. And, on the basis of that, it presents a report, which is independent. It is not one agency or one entity. There’s a consensus-based analysis. This exercise is done in between forty and fifty countries worldwide that may have a food-security issue, whether it is because of conflict or climate or anything else. What an I.P.C. does in any given location is put people in five different classifications. I.P.C. Phase 1 is that everything is fine; I.P.C. Phase 2 is that people are stressed in terms of their food-security situation; I.P.C. Phase 3 is that people are, in fact, in a food-security crisis; I.P.C. Phase 4 is that people are in food-security emergencies; and the last phase is called the famine, or catastrophe, phase.
Claim: Gaza has “the highest number of people facing catastrophic hunger ever recorded by the Integrated Food Security Classification system — anywhere, anytime.” (António Guterres, 2024-03-18)
Evidence (2024-03-20): The reports says virtually everyone in Gaza is struggling to get enough food, and that around 677,000 people — nearly a third of the population of 2.3 million — are experiencing the highest level of catastrophic hunger. [...] Antonio Guterres, the United Nations Secretary-General, says the latest report on food insecurity in Gaza shows the situation there is the worst ever recorded by the IPC system. "The world’s leading experts on food insecurity clearly document that famine in the northern part of Gaza is imminent. More than half of all Palestinians in Gaza –1.1 million people– have completely exhausted their food supplies and are facing catastrophic hunger. Palestinians in Gaza are enduring horrifying levels of hunger and suffering.
Claim: Gaza has “the highest number of people facing catastrophic hunger ever recorded by the Integrated Food Security Classification system — anywhere, anytime.” (António Guterres, 2024-03-18)
Evidence (2024-03-28): "This is the highest number of people facing catastrophic hunger ever recorded by the Integrated Food Security Classification system – anywhere, anytime," U.N. Secretary General António Guterres said. "This is an entirely man-made disaster, and the report makes clear that it can be halted."
Claim: Gaza has “the highest number of people facing catastrophic hunger ever recorded by the Integrated Food Security Classification system — anywhere, anytime.” (António Guterres, 2024-03-18)
Evidence (2024-03-19): This is the "highest number of people facing catastrophic hunger ever recorded… anywhere, anytime," by the IPC, said United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. [...] In pictures: 'Catastrophic' hunger in Gaza [...] About 210,000 people in the northern Gaza governates are already thought to be in Phase 5 of the IPC Food Insecurity Scale - known as the "Catastrophe Phase."
Claim: Gaza has “the highest number of people facing catastrophic hunger ever recorded by the Integrated Food Security Classification system — anywhere, anytime.” (António Guterres, 2024-03-18)
Evidence (2024-03-18): In the IPC’s five-tier classification of food crises, Gaza now has the largest percentage of a population to receive its most severe rating since the body began reporting in 2004, Beth Bechdol, deputy director general at the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), told The Washington Post. [...] "This is the highest number of people facing catastrophic hunger ever recorded by the Integrated Food Security Classification system — anywhere, anytime," U.N. Secretary General António Guterres said Monday. [...] The IPC blamed the famine-like conditions in Gaza on the "widespread, intense, and relentless conflict" that has forced approximately 1.9 million people, or 85 percent of Gaza’s population, to flee their homes, with over 31,000 fatalities and 73,000 injuries reported by Gaza health authorities.
Claim: Gaza has “the highest number of people facing catastrophic hunger ever recorded by the Integrated Food Security Classification system — anywhere, anytime.” (António Guterres, 2024-03-18)
Evidence (2024-03-18): Famine is imminent in the northern Gaza Strip between now and May, and the rest of Gaza’s population is facing crisis levels of hunger and worse, a United Nations-backed food security report concluded Monday. "More than half of all Palestinians in Gaza —1.1 million people — have completely exhausted their food supplies and are facing catastrophic hunger, according to the report," U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told reporters Monday after the release of the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) report. [...] The U.N.-backed IPC report says famine could occur at any time in the coming weeks, with an estimated 210,000 people in northern Gaza facing the most catastrophic danger.
Claim: Gaza has “the highest number of people facing catastrophic hunger ever recorded by the Integrated Food Security Classification system — anywhere, anytime.” (António Guterres, 2024-03-18)
Evidence (2024-03-18): A March report compiled by organizations that evaluate global food emergencies said 677,000 people in Gaza face "catastrophic" food insecurity, based on the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification system. [...] Using the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification system, the report estimated that from mid-March to mid-July, 1.1 million people — about half of the Gazan population — will face "catastrophic" food insecurity, when starvation, death and "extremely critical acute malnutrition levels" are evident. [...] He’s right about the IPC system’s data. A March report using the IPC system found that 677,000 Gazans currently face catastrophic acute food insecurity and projected that 1.1 million people are expected to face such acute food insecurity from March 16 to July 15.