Updated

Jeremy Konyndyk, president of Refugees International, sharply criticized Israeli government claims that improved malnutrition statistics in Gaza somehow invalidate the famine declaration issued a year earlier, calling the argument 'absurd on its face.' Konyndyk said in a series of posts on X that malnutrition and starvation have indeed abated since the famine declaration, but only because Israel eased aid blockages that had caused the crisis in the first place. The dispute highlights ongoing tension between humanitarian organizations and the Israeli government over the causes and trajectory of Gaza's food crisis, as international scrutiny continues over aid access and famine conditions in the territory.