The United Nations-backed organization that declared a famine in the Gaza Governorate appeared to have relied on incomplete data that is key to making its assessment of the effects of Israel’s ongoing war against the Hamas terrorist group in the enclave.
The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) issued a declaration at the end of July warning that the “worst-case scenario of famine is currently playing out in the Gaza Strip” and called for an immediate ceasefire as a means to end it.
“Mounting evidence shows that widespread starvation, malnutrition, and disease are driving a rise in hunger-related deaths,” the IPC wrote in an alert. “Latest data indicates that famine thresholds have been reached for food consumption in most of the Gaza Strip and for acute malnutrition in Gaza City.”
While the world is bombarded with heart-wrenching images — many of them fake or staged — of starving children, a review of the data shows that the IPC appears to have relied on incomplete survey results for the month of July to make its claim that Global Acute Malnutrition—a key data point used to assess famine conditions—had exceeded a necessary 15% threshold to declare the conditions in the main region of Gaza to be a famine.
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Author: Joe Weber
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