Dhaka, Aug. 25 -- The latest Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) analysis confirms what humanitarian agencies have warned for months: famine has taken hold in Gaza.
More than half a million people are trapped in conditions marked by starvation, destitution, and preventable deaths.
By the end of September, over 640,000 people are projected to face catastrophic food insecurity, with more than a million others in emergency conditions.
This is not a distant prospect but a present reality, the first officially confirmed famine in the Middle East.
The grim statistics are not abstract. They represent children too weak to cry, babies born underweight or prematurely, and parents sacrificing their own meals so their children might...