The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) defines Famine as a situation in which at least one in five households has an extreme lack of food and face starvation and destitution, resulting in extremely critical levels of acute malnutrition and death.

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) said that famine in Gaza could be averted through the immediate delivery of large-scale humanitarian assistance. In a post on its X platform on Saturday,

Famine has struck an area of Gaza and will likely spread over the next month, a global hunger monitor determined on Friday.