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A tent camp for displaced Palestinians in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, December 23, 2025. (AP/Abdel Kareem Hana)
December 24, 2025, 1:24 pm
Daily Briefing Dec. 24: Day 810 – Why Israel charges UN’s new famine report on Gaza is skewed
Settlements and legal reporter Jeremy Sharon weighs in on an uptick of West Bank settlement recognition, renewed buzz about Jewish settlement of Gaza and the High Court’s AG ruling
By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Jeremy Sharon
Displaced Palestinians receive food, distributed by a charity organization in Khan Younis, Gaza, December 6, 2025. (Abed Rahim Khatib / Anadolu)
December 24, 2025, 1:05 pm
UN report on malnutrition ‘crisis’ in Gaza ‘doesn’t reflect reality,’ experts say
Specialists point to use of inappropriate, problematic data in latest IPC report, say methodological failures led to conclusion of malnutrition crisis not reflected on the ground
By Jeremy Sharon
Palestinians distribute bread to displaced people in the Mawasi area of Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, December 8, 2025. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)
December 19, 2025, 4:57 pm
IPC monitor says ‘famine conditions’ over but Gaza food security still ‘critical’; Israel rejects findings
COGAT slams ‘distorted and biased’ report, says 500,000 tons of food has entered Strip since ceasefire, well over the enclave’s nutritional requirements as stated by the IPC
By Jeremy Sharon
Palestinians shop at a market in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on November 21, 2025. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)
December 17, 2025, 5:47 pm
Israel says famine monitor did not seek aid facilitators’ input for upcoming Gaza report
Defense Ministry’s COGAT says food aid entering Strip ‘five times greater’ than needed to sustain populace, but claims UN-backed IPC did not consult with it or US-led CMCC
By Jeremy Sharon
Displaced Palestinians, children and adults wait for food at a shelter in Nuseirat, in the central Gaza Strip, on November 23, 2025. (EYAD BABA / AFP)
December 9, 2025, 8:17 pm
UN says thousands of Gaza children still acutely malnourished after truce
UNICEF reports 9,000 children treated for severe acute malnutrition in October; anti-Hamas activist claims terror group hid tons of baby formula to push famine narrative
By Reuters and ToI Staff
Palestinians wait for food at a distribution point in Nuseirat, central Gaza Strip, June 2, 2025. (Eyad BABA / AFP)
November 20, 2025, 5:05 pm
Updated Gaza data shows famine claims likely inflated by UN-backed monitor
While hunger was still rampant, new malnutrition numbers indicate starvation did not meet IPC’s own levels for declaring famine, casting doubt over finding that fed anti-Israel sentiment
By Jeremy Sharon
Palestinian boys extend their empty pots to receive cooked rice from charity kitchen in Gaza City on August 23, 2025. (Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP)
September 11, 2025, 1:15 pm
Israeli review disputes UN-backed Gaza famine report as biased, methodologically flawed
COGAT and Foreign Ministry accuse the IPC’s Famine Review Committee of distorting data and including members with openly anti-Israel stances and at least one who justified Oct. 7
By Stav Levaton
Islam Qudeih holds her daughter, Shamm Qudeih, 2, during an interview with The Associated Press at the Santobono Pausilipon Children's Hospital in Naples, southern Italy, Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2025, where Shamm is being treated after being evacuated from Gaza. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
September 6, 2025, 9:02 pm
Child evacuated from Gaza with rare disease recovers from malnutrition in Italian hospital
Doctors say ‘a big part’ of Shamm Qudeih’s undernourishment was due to her genetic metabolic disease, but war conditions in Strip contributed to deterioration
By AP and ToI Staff
A truck transporting humanitarian aid drives down a road in Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip on August 21, 2025. (Eyad Baba/AFP)
August 27, 2025, 6:48 pm
Most Americans see famine in Gaza, blame Hamas; 18-24-year-olds back Hamas over Israel in war
Poll finds most Republicans hold terror group responsible for crisis, while Democrats are split; most American back offensive and defensive military assistance to Israel
By Luke Tress
View of the area of the planned E1 project between Jerusalem and the Ma’ale Adumim West Bank city, August 21, 2025. (Jamal Awad/Flash90)
August 24, 2025, 3:37 pm
Daily Briefing Aug. 24: Day 688 – Why both sides call E1 the end of the two-state solution
Legal and settlements reporter Jeremy Sharon delves into the controversy surrounding the newly approved West Bank project and breaks down a new UN agency declaration of famine in Gaza
By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Jeremy Sharon
A Palestinian boy extends an empty pot in front of a charity kitchen to receive cooked rice, in Gaza City on August 23, 2025. (Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP)
August 23, 2025, 11:26 pm
Palestinians fear it’s ‘too late’ after UN declares famine in northern Gaza
American doctor working in Gaza City says he’ll leave famine declaration to experts, but says ‘degree of weight loss, post-operative complications and starvation’ is clear
By AFP, Reuters and ToI Staff
A youth walks with a sack on his shoulder with other people carrying bags of humanitarian aid they received at a distribution center run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), in the central Gaza Strip, on August 22, 2025. (Eyad BABA / AFP)
August 23, 2025, 1:57 am
Netanyahu’s office calls Gaza famine declaration a ‘modern blood libel’
US State Department largely dismisses UN assessment, says it’s ‘looking into credible reports that the IPC recently changed its definition for what constitutes a famine’
By ToI Staff and Jacob Magid
Defense Minister Israel Katz visits an IDF post in the Gaza Strip buffer zone, August 5, 2025. (Ariel Hermoni/Defense Ministry)
August 22, 2025, 7:16 pm
Katz vows to destroy Gaza City unless Hamas frees hostages, lays down arms
IDF chief says army ‘expanding activity in Gaza’; Hamas calls for open borders for aid after UN famine report; PMO calls famine declaration ‘outright lie’ and ‘modern blood libel’
By Emanuel Fabian, Agencies and ToI Staff
Najah (L), a 35-year-old Palestinian mother, carries her malnourished 11-month-old daughter Sila as they await treatment at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on July 24, 2025. (AFP)
July 30, 2025, 6:00 pm
In one of Gaza’s few malnutrition wards, a child’s arm is as wide as her mother’s thumb
Nasser Medical Complex is one of only four centers left in Gaza able to treat the most dangerously hungry children, as doctor says kids in his care have ‘skin on top of bones’
By Reuters and ToI Staff
Palestinians receive meals from volunteers in Gaza City, on July 28, 2025. (Ali Hassan/Flash90)
July 29, 2025, 1:41 pm
Experts say Gaza at ‘worst-case scenario,’ famine about to cause ‘widespread death’
Calling for ‘urgent action now,’ Integrated Food Security Phase Classification says situation in the Strip is ‘unlike anything we have seen in this century’
By ToI Staff and Agencies
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