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The first Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) food security analysis of the post-October 2025 ceasefire period, finding that no areas of the Gaza Strip are currently classified in famine following the ceasefire and improved humanitarian and commercial access, representing meaningful but extremely fragile progress. At least 1.6 million people, 77% of the population, remain facing high levels of acute food insecurity. More than 100,000 children and 37,000 pregnant and breastfeeding women are projected to suffer acute malnutrition through April 2026. Four UN agencies warn that without sustained large-scale expansion of food, livelihood, agriculture, and health assistance for Gaza, hundreds of thousands could rapidly slip back into famine. The authoritative technical food security assessment of the post-ceasefire period, essential for researchers working on Gaza's food crisis and for anyone needing to understand what the October 2025 ceasefire has and has not achieved in addressing the pre-ceasefire famine conditions.
