GAZA, October 3, 2025 (WAFA) – Two children died on Friday due to starvation and malnutrition in the Gaza Strip, according to medical sources.

They said that two children died from starvation and malnutrition in the war-battered Strip within the last 24 hours, raising the death toll from Israel’s policy of forced starvation on Palestinians to 457, including 152 children.

They added that since famine was officially declared in Gaza for the first time by the Integrated Food Phase Classification (IPC), the UN-backed global hunger monitor, on August 22, 2025, 179 people, including 37 children, died of outright starvation.

On August 22, the IPC said: “After 22 months of relentless conflict, over half a million people in the Gaza Strip are facing catastrophic conditions, characterised by starvation, destitution and death.”

"Another 1.07 million people (54 percent) are in Emergency (IPC Phase 4), and 396,000 people (20 percent) are in Crisis (IPC Phase 3)."

It added that famine would expand to the areas of Deir al-Balah, in central Gaza, and Khan Younis to the south by the end of September based on current projections.

That would bring the number of people experiencing famine in Gaza to 641,000 people.

In that same timeframe, it projects that the number of people in the "emergency" phase four category would rise from 1.07m to 1.14m.

K.F.