The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) defines Famine as a situation in which at least one in five households has an extreme lack of food and face starvation and destitution, resulting in extremely critical levels of acute malnutrition and death.

Philippe Lazzarini urges influential powers to act with urgency, moral duty to halt starvation - Anadolu Ajansı

The UN-backed IPC says more than half a million Palestinians facing catastrophic famine conditions amid Israel’s war.