(22 Aug 2025)
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++CLIENTS NOTE: EDIT INCLUDES FOOTAGE OF SEVERELY MALNOURISHED CHILDREN++
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Tel Aviv, Israel – 22 August 2025
1. SOUNDBITE (English) Sam Mednick, The Associated Press:
"The world’s leading authority on food crises has said that Gaza’s largest city is in famine. The group known as the IPC has said that Gaza City is in the grips of famine and it is likely to spread it to other parts of the Strip. Now this grim milestone is the first famine determination in the Middle East, and it comes after months of aid groups warning that Israel’s restrictions on aid and continued offensive in Gaza have led people to be in a dire humanitarian situation , pushing Palestinians to the brink of starvation. Now this comes as Israel said it is ramping up its offensive in Gaza, particularly around Gaza City. Israel said it has plans to move ahead with this. There are hundreds of thousands of people sheltering there. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said there is no hunger in Gaza and has said there is no policy of starvation. In response to the IPC’s findings, the army has called them false and rejects it and said that in recent weeks there has been a scale up of aid that has gone into the Strip, but aid groups say whatever’s coming in is not enough, and they warn that if hundreds of thousands of people are forced to evacuate Gaza City, it is only going to exacerbate the situation. They say people are weak, they are starving, and it is going to be very hard for people to move. The IPC says the situation is expected to get worse and says what is needed is an immediate ceasefire as well as unhindered, unrestricted access of aid into Gaza."
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Gaza City, Gaza Strip – 21 August 2025
2. Various of pallets of aid being airdropped over Gaza City
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ARCHIVE: Gaza City, Gaza Strip – 16 August 2025
3. Various of charity’s workers filling pots of displaced people with cooked food
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ARCHIVE: Gaza City, Gaza Strip – 29 July 2025
4. Various of Suzan Marouf, doctor at Friends of the Patient Hospital, checking Oday (age 4) who suffers from malnutrition and a genetic nerve disorder, with the mid-upper arm circumference (MUAC) tape used to screen for malnutrition
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ARCHIVE: Gaza City, Gaza Strip – 2 August 2025
5. Various of Mosab al-Dibs (age 14), lying on bed at Shifa hospital (his mother next to him, al-Dibs was healthy before suffering a heavy head wound on May 7 when an Israeli airstrike hit next to his family’s tent. Since then he has been in the hospital largely paralyzed, only partly conscious and severely malnourished because the facility no longer has the supplies to feed him, according to his doctor)
STORYLINE:
The world’s leading authority on food crises said Friday the Gaza Strip’s largest city is gripped by famine, and that it is likely to spread across the territory without a ceasefire and an end to restrictions on humanitarian aid.
The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification, or IPC, said famine is occurring in Gaza City, home to hundreds of thousands of Palestinians, and that it could spread south to Deir al-Balah and Khan Younis by the end of next month.
The IPC determination comes after months of warnings by aid groups that Israel’s restrictions of food and other aid into Gaza, and its military offensive, were causing high levels of starvation among Palestinian civilians, particularly children.
Israel says it plans to soon escalate the war by seizing Gaza City and other Hamas strongholds, which experts say will exacerbate the hunger crisis.
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