TO STEM THE GENDERED IMPACTS OF STARVATION AND FAMINE, HUMANITARIAN ACTORS AND DONORS MUST: 1. Prioritize food and nutrition assistance for vulnerable groups. This includes surging predictable pipelines of ready-to-use and no-fuel foods, specialized nutritious rations for pregnant and breastfeeding women, and infant feeding supplies. Distributions must be positioned near shelters, schools, and health points, with safeguards to protect women and children. 2. Scale malnutrition screening and treatment. Community-based screening and treatment of malnutrition must be rapidly expanded, focusing on pregnant and breastfeeding women, infants, and children. 3. Ensure inclusive and tailored distribution modalities, including women-only queues, priority lanes, tokens, and deployment of female staff to reduce harassment and exclusion. Where women, older persons, or persons with disabilities cannot queue, aid must be delivered directly to their homes through inclusive mapping and community networks. Funding to WLOs, who are uniquely positioned to access women and girls, must be increased. 4. Prioritize women-headed households. Gender-disaggregated lists or community-based identification mechanisms must be used to ensure women-headed households are prioritized for food, cash, and fuel assistance, as well as safe and predictable access to water, sanitation, and hygiene services. 5. Strengthen GBV protection and mental health services in shelters. Protection actors and women’s organizations must resource women and girls’ safe spaces, confidential referrals, and survivor support systems, and they must ensure women and girls have safe access to trauma-informed psychosocial first aid. TO UPHOLD INTERNATIONAL LAW, UN MEMBER STATES, THE UN SECURITY COUNCIL, THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT, AND THE INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE MUST: 1. Demand a permanent ceasefire in Gaza, and ensure immediate, full, safe, and sustained humanitarian access across Gaza. 2. Demand that all parties to the conflict comply with international law, including international humanitarian law and the Genocide Convention, taking immediate measures to prevent the use of starvation as a weapon of warfare or act of genocide, and to protect women and girls from harm, in accordance with UN Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace, and Security. 3. Support and cooperate with independent investigations into the use of starvation as a weapon of warfare or an act of genocide, and enforce measures to hold perpetrators accountable under international humanitarian law and the Genocide Convention. 4. Uphold UN Member States’ obligations under international law, including obligations under the Genocide Convention to prevent or suppress acts of genocide and end the transfer of arms that may be used in the commission of genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and violations of international humanitarian law. 27