Tel Aviv, Aug. 22 -- A new report by the UN-affiliated Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) declared that famine is occurring in Gaza, the first such classification in the Middle East.

The IPC analysis, released on Friday, describes a catastrophic situation: hundreds of thousands of people facing starvation, collapsing food systems, and over 132,000 children under five at risk of death from acute malnutrition. The report calls for an immediate ceasefire to allow large-scale humanitarian access.

Yet, Israel's Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) strongly disputes the findings, claiming that the IPC's methodology is flawed, its data politicised, and that the reality on the ground reflects unpreced...