Unlike past evaluations, the IPC’s latest report introduced a new malnutrition measure, which it has not traditionally used for famine determinations
The United Nations–affiliated Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) recently declared a “worst-case scenario of famine” in Gaza but quietly adjusted one of its core measurement standards in the process—making it easier to issue such a designation, The Washington Free Beacon reported on Tuesday.
In its July 29 assessment, the IPC, a coalition of Western governments, U.N. agencies, and humanitarian groups, reported that “mounting evidence shows that widespread starvation, malnutrition and disease are driving a rise in hunger-related deaths” in the Hamas-controlled territory.
The New York Times, NPR, CNN, and ABC News cited the report to link Israeli aid restrictions to mass starvation.
