From the report:
The FRC does not find the FEWS NET analysis plausible given the uncertainty and lack of convergence of the supporting evidence employed in the analysis. Therefore, the FRC is unable to make a determination as to whether or not famine thresholds have been passed during April.
It looks like a lot of words to say "There is no famine in Gaza".
For corroborating evidence, the daily death tolls reported by the Ministry Of Health in Gaza are mostly static (assuming one bravely takes them at face falue). Had there been famine, they'd bounce up significantly.
https://reliefweb.int/report/occupied-palestinian-territory/famine-review-committee-review-famine-early-warning-systems-network-fews-net-ipc-compatible-analysis-northern-governorates-gaza-strip-conclusions-and-recommendations-may-2024
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I’m curious what the definition of famine is there. Is famine connected to crop yields, and so a lack of agricultural land actually precludes the possibility of calling what is happening a famine? To read that another way, there is not and will never be a famine in any dense urban area, because no harvest is underperforming there threatening the local food supply. That doesn’t mean there isn’t hunger. Hunger and starvation may be separate from famine based on definitions used.