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Israel: UN Agency Assessing Gaza Famine Risk Shows Systematic Bias

(Israel National Digital Agency) The IPC is the UN-backed system for assessing and communicating food insecurity and famine risk. On Aug. 22, 2025, the IPC released an analysis declaring famine in Gaza City. The declaration was issued not only without evidence that would justify it under the IPC's own criteria, but also in contradiction to more recent data that was publicly available before the report's release yet was ignored in the analysis. The classification disregarded newer information that directly undermined the famine classification. Starting from the second half of July, there was a sharp rise in the volume of food and humanitarian supplies entering Gaza, accompanied by expanded distribution mechanisms that reached much wider segments of the population. Food prices started to decline at the end of July and fell steeply in the first weeks of August - a clear sign of improving availability and access. A pattern has unfolded throughout the IPC's reporting on Gaza since October 2023: thresholds blurred until they lost their meaning, principles applied inconsistently, and projections repeatedly framed to highlight worst-case outcomes. The Gaza IPC reports expose a systematic lowering of standards: neutrality safeguards abandoned, critical stakeholders excluded, data selectively used, and transparency sidelined as key datasets and analytical reasoning remained inaccessible to outside scrutiny.
2025-08-24 00:00:00
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