On August 22, 2025, the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification
(IPC), the foremost authority on global food security, confirmed that
famine is ongoing in Gaza. The UN-backed body reported that more than
half a million people in the Gaza Governorate, including Gaza City, are
already starving. The IPC warned that famine will soon spread to Deir
al-Balah and Khan Younis by the end of September. According to the IPC,
514,000 people, nearly a quarter of Gaza’s population, are in famine.
The number is expected to rise to 641,000 in weeks.
This famine
comes as Israel intensifies its genocidal war of extermination against
Gaza, aimed at seizing the entire territory and displacing its people.
The new campaign, called Operation Gideon’s Chariots II, has already
begun with Israeli forces ordering hospitals in Gaza City to evacuate
hundreds of injured patients, including children, women, and the
elderly, many of whom are already starving and near death.
More
than 62,000 Palestinians have been killed in the genocidal campaign,
with hundreds more slaughtered daily in Israeli bombings, including near
the US and Israeli backed “Gaza Humanitarian Foundation” aid sites.
These GHF sites have become death traps, where starving Palestinians are
lured with food only to be massacred by Israeli forces. The real death
toll is far higher than reported, with bodies lying scattered on roads,
entire families buried under rubble, and countless victims never
registered due to constant bombardment.
Israel’s war of
extermination targets not only civilians but also civil defence workers,
hospitals, and journalists with complete impunity. On August 10,
Israeli forces bombed tents outside the main gate of al-Shifa Hospital
where Al Jazeera journalists were reporting. The strike wiped out the
entire media team in Gaza City, including the prominent journalist Anas
al-Sharif, along with several other reporters.
On August 25, a
deadly double-tap bombing struck Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis—first
hitting the fourth floor, then striking again as rescue workers and
journalists rushed in. Among the 22 civilians killed were five
journalists: Hussam al-Masri (Reuters contractor), Mariam Abu Dagga (AP
freelancer), Mohammed Salama (Al Jazeera), Moaz Abu Taha
(freelance/Reuters), and Ahmed Abu Aziz (Middle East Eye/Quds News
Network).
The Israel's assault on Gaza is part of a broader
settler-colonial project. In the occupied West Bank, Israel is
fast-tracking new settlements to seize more Palestinian land. A new
settlement plan aims to cut the West Bank in two around the E1 corridor.
The E1 zone is of strategic importance as it connects Ramallah in the
north with Bethlehem in the south. By bisecting the West Bank, Israel
seeks to destroy the last geographical continuity of Palestinian
territory.
What is unfolding today is genocide before the eyes of
the world. Israel, backed and armed by US imperialism and with European
complicity, is using famine, bombing, and displacement to annihilate the
Palestinian people. Yet the steadfastness of Gaza’s people, resisting
in the face of death, continues to expose the brutality of Zionism and
the bankruptcy of imperialism.
