A panel of global experts found that famine conditions previously reported in Gaza City had been alleviated since October’s cease-fire but that hundreds of thousands of people across the territory still faced major difficulties accessing food.
In a report published on Friday, the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification, or I.P.C., acknowledged that the flow of aid and goods into Gaza had improved, although only basic survival needs were being met, it said.
It said that around 1.6 million people were still experiencing high levels of acute food insecurity.
The group, which the United Nations and aid agencies rely on to monitor and classify global hunger crises, said that more than 100,000 people faced catastrophic conditions as of the end of November across the four regions of Gaza that it had looked at but did not classify any one region as facing widespread famine.
The I.P.C. uses five phases to categorize food insecurity. If a household is experiencing the highest level of food insecurity, including starvation, and risk of extremely critical acute malnutrition and death, that is classified as a “catastrophe.” The term “famine” is used when it is classifying conditions across an area.
