Gaza Strip: IPC Acute Food Insecurity Situation for 16 October – 30 November 2025 and Projection for 1 December 2025 – 15 April 2026

19 December 2025

IPC Gaza Strip Acute Food Insecurity Malnutrition October 2025 – April 2026 Special Snapshot

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IPC Famine Review Committee Statement Gaza December 2025

Key Results:

Following a significant reduction in conflict, a proposed peace plan, and improved access for both humanitarian and commercial food deliveries, food security conditions have improved in the Gaza Strip. However, the situation remains critical.

Between 16 October and 30 November 2025, around 1.6 million people (77 percent of the population analysed) faced high levels of acute food insecurity (IPC Phase 3 or above). This includes more than half a million people in Emergency (IPC Phase 4) and over 100,000 people in Catastrophe (IPC Phase 5).

During the projection period (1 December 2025 to 15 April 2026), the situation is expected to remain severe with around 1.6 million people still facing Crisis or worse (IPC Phase 3 or above) food insecurity. This includes 571,000 people in Emergency (IPC Phase 4) conditions, and about 1,900 people in Catastrophe (IPC Phase 5), reflecting a reduction in the most extreme conditions.

Recommendations and next steps:

Promote sustainable peace: To prevent further loss of life and eliminate any risk of a return to Famine, the gains recorded since the ceasefire and UN resolution must be reinforced through renewed peace efforts by all parties. Sustained action is essential to promote long-term stability.

Ensure sustained and expanded access: Safe, stable, and unhindered access for humanitarian and commercial goods must be guaranteed through all entry points, allowing for lifesaving assistance and essential goods and services to reach all people in need across the Gaza Strip.

Scale up humanitarian assistance: To prevent further loss of life and avert ongoing destitution—especially during the winter period—expanded humanitarian assistance is urgently required across all sectors, including food, health, nutrition, WASH, shelter, fuel, and productive inputs.

Restore commercial activity: Increase the volume and expand the range of goods entering the Gaza Strip, stabilise market systems and currency circulation, reduce transaction costs, and promote digital payment solutions to restore household purchasing power.

Revive livelihoods and food production: Facilitate access to land and sea, essential inputs, and employment opportunities, supported by expanded availability of resources needed to rehabilitate and restart all sectors of domestic food production.