{"id":84666,"date":"2025-08-22T09:21:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T09:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/84666\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T09:21:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T09:21:08","slug":"israel-pushes-forward-with-gaza-city-offensive-as-un-backed-body-to-give-update-on-famine-live-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/84666\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel pushes forward with Gaza City offensive as UN-backed body to give update on famine &#8211; live updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UN-backed body to release update on famine in Gazapublished at 08:24 British Summer Time<\/p>\n<p>08:24 BST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-8kvzjk-Contributor etflsgg2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/8b4e7d15-380f-471a-8ef3-f3c57bf753b4.jpg.webp.webp\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Rorey Bosotti<br \/>Live page editor<\/p>\n<p>      <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Children and women clamour for food at a charity kitchen in Khan Younis. They're holding out plastic and metal pans, pots and other containers. One girl in a pink top is holding on to a metal pole\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/82d1ae89-86c7-4461-a154-e804c47ffa26.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"1353\" height=\"761\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Reuters<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Integrated Food Security Phase Classifications (IPC)<br \/>\nwill release an update later this morning on famine in the Gaza Strip.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The UN-backed body responsible for monitoring food security, which does not itself officially declare famine, said<br \/>\nlast month that the \u201cworst-case scenario of famine\u201d was \u201cplaying out in<br \/>\nGaza&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry says 271 people<br \/>\nhave died of &#8220;famine and malnutrition&#8221; since on 7 October 2023 &#8211; including 112 children.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Humanitarian agencies have called on Israel to<br \/>\nfacilitate the access of more aid into the Strip, warning food and water<br \/>\nshortages could develop into a famine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Israel denies there&#8217;s starvation in Gaza, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu saying earlier this<br \/>\nmonth that Israel&#8217;s &#8220;policy throughout the war has been to prevent a<br \/>\nhumanitarian crisis while Hamas\u2019s policy has been to create it&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The new report comes less than 24 hours after Netanyahu said he&#8217;s approved plans for a massive assault on Gaza City, despite widespread international and domestic opposition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">We&#8217;ll bring you all the key lines from the report once it&#8217;s<br \/>\nreleased. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UN-backed body to release update on famine in Gazapublished at 08:24 British Summer Time 08:24 BST Rorey BosottiLive&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84667,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-84666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}