Press releases

Reacting to the Integrated Food Security Classification (IPC) report published today, which confirms a famine in Gaza Governorate and predicts it will expand to Deir al-Balah and Khan Younis by the end of September, Oxfam’s Food Security and Livelihoods Coordinator, Mahmoud Alsaqqa, said: ”Despite warnings in July that famine was imminent, Israel has continued to starve Palestinians, denying nearly every request from humanitarian agencies operating in Gaza."

Oxfam experts will be at the World Water Week in Stockholm (24-28 August) speaking to a number of issues on water and climate.

Today, INGOs’ fears have proven true: Israel's registration system is now being used to further block aid and deny food and medicine.

This decision marks a dangerous escalation in the ongoing illegal occupation of Palestinian territory, a brazen act of erasure carried out in full view.

The Integrated Phase Classification (IPC) has today issued an alert saying that the worst-case scenario of famine in Gaza is already unfolding.

We are witnessing the collapse of a moral contract. While some regions have seen some modest gains, the world is veering dangerously off track, leaving the poorest and more vulnerable behind.  

Aid cuts and humanitarian deadlock are fuelling a full-blown public health disaster.

Water-borne diseases that are both preventable and readily treatable have increased by almost 150% inside Gaza over the past three months.

Governments must phase out fossil fuels, rapidly reduce emissions, provide remedy to those facing climate damages and provide climate finance.

As the Israeli government’s siege starves the people of Gaza, aid workers are now joining the same food lines, risking being shot just to feed their families.