The IPC famine monitoring organization stated on Friday that food security conditions in the entire Gaza Strip “remain critical,” in a new report covering the second half of October and all of November that classified the territory as being in its “Emergency” Phase 4 category — the fourth highest of its five levels of food insecurity.

The organization said, however, that the situation has improved since the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas went into effect on October 10 due to increased volumes of aid going into the territory, and changed its determination of Gaza from Phase 5 — Catastrophe — in July and August to Phase 4.

In the IPC’s August report, it said “famine” had broken out in Gaza during the second half of July and throughout August. But its new report found that “famine conditions” were no longer prevailing in that district, or anywhere else in the territory. Israel’s COGAT agency, which coordinates the entry of aid into Gaza, strongly rejected the IPC’s findings that the humanitarian situation in the Strip remained critical.

It described the IPC report as a “distorted, biased and unfounded picture of the humanitarian situation,” which suffered from “severe gaps in data collection” and relies on “sources that do not reflect the full scope of humanitarian assistance.”

COGAT also stated that some 500,000 metric tons of food have entered the territory since October 10, far outweighing the needs of the Gaza population according to metrics from the World Food Programme, and as accepted by the IPC itself.

According to the new study, some one million people faced high levels of acute food insecurity ranking as IPC Phase 3 between 16 October and 30 November 2025, while 500,000 people were still in Emergency Phase 4 levels of food insecurity, and 100,000 people were still in Phase 5 — Catastrophe. The........

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