The director-general of Israel’s Foreign Ministry penned a scathing letter to an executive at the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification over the latter’s determination of an ongoing “famine” in Gaza.

Eden Bar Tal wrote to IPC global program manager Jose Lopez of Israel’s “utter denunciation” of the IPC report issued last Friday, calling it “deeply flawed, unprofessional and gravely missing the standards expected from an international body entrusted with such a serious responsibility.”

The letter largely criticizes the IPC’s extrapolation of varied data to draw assumptions that the death toll due to malnutrition had reached famine levels, even as the IPC acknowledges that it doesn’t have the hard figures to show that.

Bar Tal accused the IPC of “reaching a predetermined conclusio

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