Famine has been declared in Gaza City, with an Integrated Food Security Phase Classification report estimating 514,000 people experiencing famine. Medics report wards are eerily silent because skeletal children are too weak to cry and families face unimaginable suffering. Aid deliveries have been systematically obstructed, with food piling at borders and UN efforts thwarted. International voices call the situation a failure of humanity while some officials reject the famine finding. Political tensions, limited US pressure for a ceasefire, and plans to take control of Gaza City risk further bombardment and displacement. The conflict has caused an estimated 62,000 Palestinian deaths in 22 months.
An unnatural quiet is explained by the fact that the skeletal children are too weak to cry. And if they did, those grief-stricken parents must wonder: would the world pay any heed? An Integrated Food Security Phase Classification report said 514,000 people are experiencing famine. It was Somalia in 2011, South Sudan in 2017 and 2020 and Sudan in 2024; in 2025, it is the children of Gaza paying the highest price for world indifference.
UN chief Antonio Guterres has called out the "failure of humanity itself". Oxfam Ireland's CEO Jim Clarken said: "Confirmation of famine in Gaza City is a devastating but tragically predictable milestone in a crisis that has been unfolding in plain sight." Predictably, Israel's foreign ministry rejected the report, insisting "there is no famine in Gaza." UN aid chief Tom Fletcher said the famine should "haunt us all". It was entirely preventable had the UN not been thwarted in delivering food. "Food stacks up at borders because of systematic obstruction by Israel," he said.
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