UN calls for action in Gaza after declaration of famine

New York [US], August 22 (ANI): United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Friday lamented the condition in Gaza, as a famine was officially declared there.
As per the UN, more than half a million Palestinians are facing catastrophic famine conditions, which include starvation, destitution and death.
"Just when it seems there are no words left to describe the living hell in Gaza, a new one has been added: "famine"," Guterres said in a post on X.

Just when it seems there are no words left to describe the living hell in Gaza, a new one has been added: “famine”.

This is not a mystery — it is a man-made disaster, a moral indictment and a failure of humanity itself. Famine is not only about food; it is the deliberate… pic.twitter.com/1MYaxhJl4Z

— António Guterres (@antonioguterres) August 22, 2025

Famine has now been confirmed in Gaza.

Over half a million people are facing the most devastating form of hunger, warns @theIPCinfo.

An immediate ceasefire and unhindered humanitarian access is imperative to save lives.https://t.co/U2Dn8O0TS1 — via @WFP pic.twitter.com/rK8plfLAwm

— United Nations (@UN) August 22, 2025

Famine declared by IPC in #Gaza Governorate is a direct result of actions by #Israel's Government that has unlawfully restricted entry & distribution of humanitarian aid.

It is a war crime to use starvation as a method of warfare, and the resulting deaths may also amount to a… pic.twitter.com/knqnRpe2yH

— UN Human Rights (@UNHumanRights) August 22, 2025

Meanwhile, Israel has called the allegations as 'fake campaign'.
"The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) has just published a "tailor-made" fabricated report to fit Hamas's fake campaign. Unbelievably, the IPC twisted its own rules and ignored its own criteria just to produce false accusations against Israel: the IPC changed its own global standard, cutting the 30% threshold to 15% for this report only, and totally ignoring its second criterion of death rate, solely to serve Hamas's fake campaign," the Israel Foreign Ministry said in a post on X.

The IPC has just published a “tailor-made” fabricated report to fit Hamas’s fake campaign.
Unbelievably, the IPC twisted its own rules and ignored its own criteria just to produce false accusations against Israel: the IPC changed its own global standard, cutting the 30% threshold…

— Israel Foreign Ministry (@IsraelMFA) August 22, 2025

The IPC just published a tailor-made report to fit Hamas’s fake campaign.
They twisted their own rules, lowered famine thresholds, and ignored death-rate criteria — all to smear Israel with lies. pic.twitter.com/1eJkDX3k9M

— Israel Foreign Ministry (@IsraelMFA) August 22, 2025

In other countries, the IPC declares famine at 30% malnutrition.

In Gaza only, the UN-backed IPC lowered the bar to 15% and it is based on unreliable data.

They didn’t find famine - so they forged one. pic.twitter.com/MEG7ns4cT4

— Israel Foreign Ministry (@IsraelMFA) August 22, 2025

"In other countries, the IPC declares famine at 30% malnutrition. In Gaza only, the UN-backed IPC lowered the bar to 15% and it is based on unreliable data. They didn't find famine - so they forged one," Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated in a post on X.

The IPC bent its own rules to fit Hamas’s campaign.
They lowered famine thresholds, ignored criteria, and laundered Hamas lies.

Meanwhile, reality tells a different story:
➡ Over 100,000 aid trucks have entered Gaza since the war began.
➡ Markets are stocked, food prices are… pic.twitter.com/x7Jts9DlRn

— Israel Foreign Ministry (@IsraelMFA) August 22, 2025

COGAT (Coordination of Government Activities in the Territories: Judea and Samaria and towards the Gaza Strip), an NGO for Israel, said that they have facilitated the flow of aid since May. It is alleged that the IPC report is inaccurate and does not reflect the reality on the ground.
"Previous reports and assessments by the IPC have repeatedly been proven inaccurate and do not reflect the reality on the ground. The report deliberately disregards data that was provided to its authors in a meeting held prior to its publication, and completely overlooks the efforts made in recent weeks to stabilise the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip," COGAT stated in a post on X.

COGAT categorically rejects the @theIPCinfo Gaza report, including the claim of famine in the Gaza Strip, and particularly in Gaza City.

Previous reports and assessments by the IPC have repeatedly been proven inaccurate and do not reflect the reality on the ground. The report… pic.twitter.com/LFNCCAknQ9

— COGAT (@cogatonline) August 22, 2025

Ambassador of Israel to the European Union, Avi Nir-Feldklein said that Israel had allocated nearly twice the budget for Palestinian refugees compared to any other refugee population, and that the famine report was false.

We've grown accustomed to the UN's double standard, allocating nearly twice the budget for Palestinian refugees compared to any other refugee population.

Now unfortunately, we woke up to a new cynical reality: the emergence of special standards for defining hunger standards,… pic.twitter.com/rZpsXnE0Vg

— Avi Nir-Feldklein (@avraham_nir) August 22, 2025

Israel utterly rejects the statement of the foreign ministers regarding the approval of a construction plan near Jerusalem, its eternal capital, and rejects the attempt to impose foreign dictates upon it.

The historic right of Jews to live anywhere in the Land of Israel – the…

— Israel Foreign Ministry (@IsraelMFA) August 22, 2025

The conflict between Israel and Gaza has killed at least 62,192 people and wounded 157,114, while 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the attacks on October 7, 2023, and more than 200 people were taken captive, as per Al Jazeera. (ANI)