The report, a product of the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC)—a partnership between 19 organizations including various United Nations agencies, Save the Children, the World Health Organization (WHO), and the World Food Programme (WFP)—states that while the entire population of the Gaza Strip, approximately 2.1 million people, will at best be able to meet basic food needs, approximately 470,000 of the area’s residents will struggle to obtain almost any food at all through September. (President Donald Trump previously floated plans to take over Gaza and force Palestinians to leave, which UN Secretary-General António Guterres described as “ethnic cleansing.”) But top aid groups—including the WHO and UN agencies—oppose the aid plan, arguing it would be inadequate to solve the scale of the crisis and would allow the Israeli military to control the distribution of aid. The IPC report calls for “ending hostilities, ensuring unrestricted humanitarian access, restoring essential services and commercial flows, and providing sufficient lifesaving assistance to all in need.” Since the start of the war, approximately 90 precent of the population of the Gaza Strip has been displaced, and more than 52,400 people have been killed, including a large proportion of women and children, according to the IPC report; another 118,o00 have been injured.
Author: Julianne McShane
Published at: 2025-05-13 22:02:28
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