TOPSHOT - Palestinian women and children hold out their empty pots in front of a charity kitchen in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on August 21, 2025. Rights group Amnesty International earlier this week accused Israel of enacting a "deliberate policy" of starvation in Gaza. Israel heavily restricts aid coming into Gaza but has repeatedly rejected claims of deliberate starvation. (Photo by AFP) (Photo by -/AFP via Getty Images) AFP via Getty Images
A famine has finally been declared in northern Gaza, according to The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification analysis . This ultimately will affect more than half a million individuals in Gaza, according to the World Health Organization in the upcoming weeks, and is largely due to Israel limiting the flow of food and aid