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STORY: UN / GAZA IPC WFP PRESSER
TRT: 02:10
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGES: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 29 JULY 2025, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE – NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, United Nations headquarters
29 JULY 2025, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, press briefing room
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Jean Martin Bauer, Director of Food Security and Nutrition Assessments, World Food Programme (WFP):
“The previous IPC analysis was done in May 2025 and when it said there was a risk of famine for the Gaza Strip, since May the situation for food Security and nutrition has gotten a lot worse. What the data tells us is that two of the three indicators that we monitor have reached famine thresholds.”
4. Wide shot, press briefing room
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Jean Martin Bauer, Director of Food Security and Nutrition Assessments, World Food Programme (WFP):
“The three indicators that we look at include, number one, the household food deficits. Number two, low acute malnutrition and number three, mortality. For household food deficits those have been above famine thresholds for a long time in many parts of Gaza, but the situation has gotten worse in the past few months. Today, we've got over 33 per cent of the population that goes for an entire day without having access to any food.”
6. Wide shot, press briefing room
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Jean Martin Bauer, Director of Food Security and Nutrition Assessments, World Food Programme (WFP):
“For malnutrition, the levels of global acute malnutrition have quadrupled in Gaza City between May and July. So, for two of the three indicators we are above famine thresholds, which indicates how serious the situation has gotten.”
8. Wide shot, press briefing room
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Ross Smith, Director of Emergency Preparedness and Response, World Food Programme (WFP):
“Just to say that since we last briefed, we have seen the introduction of these humanitarian pauses since Sunday. We certainly, from the WFP perspective, welcome these pauses, but as it was said in the opening, we are not yet getting the volumes of food and other relief supplies that we need inside Gaza. Since Sunday, we've only been able to move approximately half of what we've requested to move. And because people are desperate and the situation on the ground is such that crowds are swarming convoys of the relief supplies, we're not able to do the proper distributions that we want. I will also highlight here that we continue every day to see casualty incidents as live fire is directed at crowds.”
10. Wide shot, end of press briefing
The latest Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) report reveals a worsening hunger crisis in Gaza, according to the World Food Programme (WFP). “What the data tells us is that two of the three indicators that we monitor have reached famine thresholds,” said Jean Martin Bauer, WFP’s Director of Food Security and Nutrition Assessments. He added that the overall situation has deteriorated since the previous IPC assessment in May, which had already warned of famine risk.
The three indicators used to determine famine levels are household food deficits, acute malnutrition, and mortality. Briefing reporters in New York today (Jul 29) Bauer said food consumption has sharply declined across the territory. “Today, we've got over 33 percent of the population that goes for an entire day without having access to any food,” he said.
Malnutrition has also spiked. “The levels of global acute malnutrition have quadrupled in Gaza City between May and July,” Bauer noted.
While humanitarian pauses have allowed limited aid to trickle in, WFP officials say current access remains inadequate.
“Since Sunday, we've only been able to move approximately half of what we've requested to move,” said Ross Smith, WFP’s Director of Emergency Preparedness and Response. “Because people are desperate and the situation on the ground is such that crowds are swarming convoys of the relief supplies, we're not able to do the proper distributions that we want.”
Smith added that live fire directed at civilians continues to disrupt aid operations. “We continue every day to see casualty incidents,” he said.
