Excerpt: On 22 August, for the first time since 7 October 2023, the United Nations confirmed that a famine was underway in Gaza Governorate, classed under the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) as Phase 5: Famine/Humanitarian Catastrophe. The famine was projected to expand to Deir al-Balah and Khan Younis by the end of September. According to the mechanism’s report, “over half a million people in the Gaza Strip are facing catastrophic conditions characterised by starvation, destitution and death.” A further 1.07 million people, 54 percent of the Gaza Strip’s population, faced Emergency (IPC Phase 4) levels of food insecurity, and another 396,000 people (20 percent) were experiencing a food security Crisis (IPC Phase 3).