IPC had to ignore their own definition to declare a famine though. An actual famine involves at least 2 starvations per 10,000 people per day, among other requirements. According to Hamas' own data, Gaza was always several orders of magnitude short of that.
First, the IPC famine scale is a scale in phases, not a simple yes-no binary.
Second, yes there is a war going on - solid data is hard to come by. But that’s a lack of data, not a change in their criteria. You can read their full mortality analysis and reasoning starting on page 24 https://www.ipcinfo.org/fileadmin/user_upload/ipcinfo/docs/I...
The conclusion is:
>Considering the available evidence, and in line with
the IPC Guidance Note on Famine Classification,64
the FRC infers from the available data that mortality
thresholds for Famine have already been exceeded in
Gaza Governorate. Based on expert judgement, we also
conclude that the Famine thresholds for mortality have
not yet been crossed in Deir al-Balah or Khan Younis
governorates.
No goalposts moved. Based on the data we have, people are dying of malnutrition.
They made up that claim. Hamas never even claimed anywhere near the number of deaths that would comprise famine. And Hamas never managed to point their cameras at anyone starving for non-medical reasons. We have a very clear case of a dog not barking.
