{"id":90157,"date":"2025-08-27T10:10:59","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T10:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tv.guardian.ng\/?p=90157"},"modified":"2025-08-27T10:10:59","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T10:10:59","slug":"famine-in-gaza-city-did-the-uns-hunger-monitor-forge-the-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/famine-in-gaza-city-did-the-uns-hunger-monitor-forge-the-numbers\/","title":{"rendered":"Famine in Gaza City: Did the UN\u2019s hunger monitor \u2018forge\u2019 the numbers?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"dailymotion-player\"><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/x1ee8e.js\" data-video=\"kzhGtM1jvx7WaXDILEG\"><\/script><\/div><br><br><p>\nSince the UN-backed IPC declared Gaza City and its surrounding areas are officially suffering from famine, Israel has slammed the report as &#8220;lies'&#8221; and &#8220;Hamas propaganda&#8221;. Now, Israel has attacked the methodology used by the IPC, saying that it lowered its own threshold to change the goalposts and make declaring a famine easier. In this episode, Vedika Bahl deep dives into how the IPC measures famine, and if there&#8217;s any truth to this claim.<\/p>\n"},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since the UN-backed IPC declared Gaza City and its surrounding areas are officially suffering from famine, Israel has slammed the report as &#8220;lies&#8217;&#8221; and &#8220;Hamas propaganda&#8221;. Now, Israel has attacked the methodology used by the IPC, saying that it lowered its own threshold to change the goalposts and make declaring a famine easier. In this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":88124,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gam_disable_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1539],"tags":[10510,20048,5089,38180,994],"class_list":["post-90157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-famine","tag-gaza-city","tag-hunger","tag-numbers","tag-un"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90157"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90194,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90157\/revisions\/90194"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}