A high risk of Famine persists across the whole Gaza Strip as long as conflict continues and humanitarian access is restricted.  

About 96 percent of the population in the Gaza Strip (2.15M people) face high levels of acute food insecurity through September 2024.  

While the whole territory is classified in Emergency (IPC Phase 4), over 495,000 people (22 percent of the population) are still facing catastrophic levels of acute food insecurity (IPC Phase 5). In this phase, households experience an extreme lack of food, starvation, and exhaustion of coping capacities.  

745,000 people (33 percent) are classified in Emergency (IPC Phase 4).  

Allow for humanitarian access: Ensure unimpeded access to all populations across the Gaza Strip.

Provide lifesaving humanitarian assistance: Address the extremely high severity and magnitude of acute food insecurity and alarming WASH and health conditions through (i) the restoration of health, nutrition, and WASH services; and (ii) the provision of safe, nutritious, and sufficient humanitarian food assistance to all the people in need. All aid supplies, including medicines, fuel and other necessities should be allowed to enter and move throughout the Gaza Strip.

Restore production and market systems: Restore the functioning of market infrastructure and bakeries, combined with cash-based interventions where feasible. Rehabilitate food production systems as soon as possible, including horticulture, livestock, and fishing. Commercial good delivery should continue, however not at the expense of humanitarian assistance.

Provide malnutrition prevention services and treatment: Deliver acute malnutrition treatment services maintaining and protecting stabilization centres and outpatient treatment. Promote and support breastfeeding, provide ready to use infant formula for non-breastfed infants. Provide complementary foods and micronutrient supplements for young children, pregnant and breastfeeding women, the chronically ill, and the elderly.