Breaking news: Gaza City and surrounding areas are officially under famine, monitors say

Aug. 22, 2025, 5:49 a.m. ET

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A group of people, mostly women, thrust metal pots and other containers over a divider as people pour a yellow broth into them.

Saher Alghorra for The New York Times

Gaza City and Surrounding Areas Are Officially Under Famine, Monitors Say

At least half a million people in the enclave were facing the most severe conditions measured by U.N.-backed international experts: starvation, acute malnutrition and death. An Israeli agency rejected the finding.

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