A displaced Palestinian boy waits with his container to receive donated food portions at a charity kitchen in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip. AFP
"No areas are classified in Famine," said the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification Initiative (IPC), a coalition of monitors tasked by the UN to warn of impending crises.
But it warned "the situation remains critical: the entire Gaza Strip is classified in Emergency".
"Following the ceasefire... the latest IPC analysis indicates notable improvements in food security and nutrition compared to the August 2025 analysis, which detected famine," it said.
But around 1.6 million people are still forecast to face "crisis" levels of food insecurity in the period running to April 15, it said.
Tel Aviv has continued to violate the terms of the truce, brokered by Egypt, Qatar, Turkey and the US in October, carrying out tens of strikes that killed and wounded hundreds of Palestinians in the strip, in what Amnesty described last week as the continuing Israeli genocide in Gaza.
In tandem, Israeli occupation forces have maintained tight restrictions on the entry of humanitarian aid and winter supplies to 2.3 million Palestinians battling the spectre of hunger and death from extreme cold conditions in the strip.
Egypt, in collaboration with the UN and its humanitarian partners, has been sending daily aid convoys to Gaza in the face of continued Israeli blockade on the strip.
*This story was edited by Ahram Online.
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