Starvation

One in five people in Gaza face starvation, report warns, as Israel’s months-long blockade continues

CNN — One in five people in the Gaza Strip are facing starvation as the entire territory edges closer to famine, a new United Nations-backed report warns, after nearly three months of Israel’s blockade of critically needed humanitarian aid. The warning comes as the UN and several NGOs, as well as civilians in Gaza, say …

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Egypt Independent May 13, 2025

UN experts condemn Israel’s renewed ‘weaponised starvation’ in Gaza

UN experts condemn Israel’s renewed ‘weaponised starvation’ in Gaza Over a dozen human rights experts have called on nations worldwide

Middle East Eye March 8, 2025

UN says no food has entered northern Gaza since start of October, putting 1 million people at risk of starvation

CNN — No food has entered northern Gaza since the start of October, putting 1 million people at risk of going hungry, the World Food Programme told CNN on Friday. In August, approximately 700 hundred aid trucks entered northern Gaza. In September, only 400 aid trucks entered, after commercial operations ceased at the Allenby Crossing on …

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Egypt Independent October 12, 2024

War on Gaza: Palestinians face ‘deliberate starvation’ by Israel, says UN expert

War on Gaza: Palestinians face ‘deliberate starvation’ by Israel, says UN expert New report concludes that Israel is conducting an

Middle East Eye September 10, 2024

Sudan: UN experts say warring parties using starvation as weapon of war

Sudan: UN experts say warring parties using starvation as weapon of war More than 25 million civilians in Sudan are

Middle East Eye June 28, 2024

Children are dying of starvation in their parents’ arms as famine spreads through Gaza

CNN — Younis lays disorientated on a green mattress in Nasser Hospital, in southern Gaza. His long brown eyelashes rest delicately on his pale sunken face, as he drifts in and out of sleep. The 9-year-old Palestinian boy lies in his mother’s arms, clearly wasted from severe malnutrition and suffering from dehydration. His blue jogging bottoms …

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Egypt Independent June 26, 2024

War on Gaza: UK-born former Israeli official accused of aiding intentional starvation

War on Gaza: UK-born former Israeli official accused of aiding intentional starvation UK group says dossier filed with Metropolitan Police

Middle East Eye June 7, 2024

“Trucks are stopped, people are dying”: Top EU diplomat claims Israel is using starvation as weapon of war

The European Union’s foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, has accused Israel of using “starvation as a weapon of war” and “provoking famine” in Gaza. Borrell on Monday said Gaza was “no longer on the brink of famine” but “in a state of famine affecting thousands of people,” adding that it was not a natural disaster …

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Egypt Independent March 18, 2024

Gaza is ‘dying of starvation’ – a look on the ground

Most of their days are filled with the hardship of searching for food. Two million hungry residents of Gaza, on the midst of the holy month of Ramadan, are barely able to find food to keep themselves alive. In a report on Monday evening, The New York Times monitored the worsening famine Gaza’s residents are …

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Egypt Independent March 14, 2024

Relative of Palestinian boy facing starvation in northern Gaza says “there is no treatment” for him

Ayman Al-Zanat, 28, worries that his young nephew, Fadi, will not make it through the night. The Palestinian boy, age 6, clutches his chest while lying on a blue hospital bed in Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza. He is suffering from severe malnutrition and dehydration, according to the health ministry in Gaza. “The child’s …

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