In a world so rich, a famine in Sudan is an indictment, not an inevitability. But is the world ready to see forced hunger as intolerable? That is the question today.

On July 29, 2025, the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), the foremost authority on global food security, declared the "worst-case scenario" of famine is unfolding in Gaza "amidst ...

The world is facing a deepening hunger crisis with resources falling far short of needs, the United Nations World Food Programme warned on Tuesday, citing sharp declines in humanitarian funding.

Experts say that food is increasingly being used as a weapon in conflicts in places like Sudan, Syria and Gaza. But there's never been a war crimes case about it in an international court. That may ...

On Tuesday’s episode of The Excerpt podcast: There are major international starvation concerns in Gaza, even as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says there is no starvation there. A gunman ...

Officials in the Hamas-controlled Gaza strip say the war has now killed 60,000 Palestinians. Israel says 5,000 aid trucks entered Gaza in two months. The new Palestinian toll does not distinguish ...

A few weeks ago, Soliman Zyad, a young health-care worker in northern Gaza, told me that his family was near starvation. On some days, he and his uncle AbdulKareem walked in search of food from 3 A.M.

In late July, the world’s leading hunger monitor declared what many had already feared: Famine is unfolding across Gaza, it said, with “a rise in hunger-related deaths” driven by “widespread ...

In late August, two of the world’s leading food crisis assessments came to the same conclusion about what is happening in Gaza: “famine with reasonable evidence.” One was the UN-affiliated Integrated ...

Africa’s most populous nation was already facing one of the world’s biggest hunger crises. It’s getting much worse.

Some of Israel’s most important Western allies, under political pressure from voters appalled by mounting evidence of starvation in the Gaza Strip, now say they will recognize a Palestinian state.

# Those figures from the UN and WFP show that US $93 billion per year—less than one per cent of military spending—would end global hunger. The contrast exposes the chasm between our professed values ...