The IPC is an international standard meant to measure the threat of starvation without bias. Many hope that Friday’s IPC report, which determined Gaza is experiencing famine, will spur an international aid response.

According to the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), a system that measures food insecurity and malnutrition, 32 percent of the population of Gaza City and the surrounding areas “are facing catastrophic conditions characterized by starvation,

A global hunger monitor determined on Friday that famine is taking place in Gaza, nearly two years after Israel launched a military campaign in the tiny Palestinian territory in response to the Hamas attack of October 7,