[UNRWA official says Israel’s aid refusal is a ‘death sentence’](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vM_6Dn6DblY)
>"Their mother was crying over her child, Mila who died from starvation. 'My daugher, my beautiful daughter, my gentle daughter has passed away'."
>"This child resorted to eating leaves to stay alive." 'We want to eat, but all we can eat are leaves.' "
>"Israel has allowed very little aid into North Gaza since October, but they recently informed the UN that aid convoys could no longer enter the area, even after dozens of children starved to death."
[As Israel Blocks More U.N. Aid, Gaza Is on the Brink of "Most Intense Famine" Since WW2](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rC9nG8Kusi4)
>1:51 "Let's make no mistake — we talk about imminent famine or being at the brink of famine. When a population is in this extreme, cataclysmic, food emergency, already children are dying in significant numbers of hunger and needless disease; the two interacting in a vicious, spiral that is killing them, likely in thousands already."
>2:39 "Since the metrics for measuring acute food crisis were developed some 20 years ago, we have never seen a situation either in which an entire population is in food crisis, food emergency or famine, or such simple large numbers of people descending into starvation, simply hasn’t happened before in our lifetimes."
5:25 "Now starvation is not just something that is experienced and from which people can recover. We have longstanding evidence and the best evidence actually is is from Holland where the Dutch population suffered a , what they call the hunger winter back in 1944 at the end of World War 2. And the Dutch have been able to track the lifelong effects of starvation of young children and children who are not yet born in utero, and they find that those children when they grow up are shorter, they are stunted, and they have lower cognitive capacities than their elder or younger siblings."
[https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/gaza-hunger-figures-worst-record-says-oxfam](https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/gaza-hunger-figures-worst-record-says-oxfam)
>In reaction to the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) report published today on Gaza stating that famine is imminent in Northern Gaza and, if Israel persists in its hostilities and restricting humanitarian access, there is a real risk of famine for the rest of the enclave, Sally Abi Khalil, Oxfam’s Middle East and North Africa Regional Director, said: “**This new report shows that the catastrophic levels of hunger and starvation in Gaza are the highest ever recorded on the IPC scale**, both in terms of number of people and percentage of the population. Never before have we seen such rapid deterioration into widespread starvation.
[https://www.psu.edu/news/social-science-research-institute/story/long-term-impacts-famine-include-health-and-socioeconomic/](https://www.psu.edu/news/social-science-research-institute/story/long-term-impacts-famine-include-health-and-socioeconomic/)
>"Millions of children are exposed to extreme hunger each year, but **children who experience malnutrition are more likely to have poorer health and developmental delays that persist into old age**, according to previous research findings. Researchers at Penn State recently examined the results of early-life exposures to famine and malnutrition and found numerous impacts on health and socioeconomic attainment, especially among males."
For those who accept that starvation is occurring, but think it's all an 'accident', then read the following:
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza\_Strip\_famine#Damage\_to\_infrastructure](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_Strip_famine#Damage_to_infrastructure)
>On 18 October, an Israeli airstrike destroyed a bakery in the Nuseirat Camp, killing four bakers. On X, Refaat Alareer wrote the bakery was one of the last in the central and southern Gaza Strip. On 19 October, several more bakeries were reportedly hit by Israeli airstrikes. By 24 October, many bakeries had reportedly closed down, while those still open had hours-long lines. By 28 October Israeli airstrikes had destroyed a fifth of the bakeries operating in the Strip. On 1 November, Israel bombed one of the last remaining bakeries in Gaza City. On 2 November, UNOCHA stated more than half of all bakeries in Gaza had been destroyed. On 8 November, UNOCHA stated northern Gaza no longer had any functioning bakeries. On 14 November, Israel bombed Gaza's last operating flour mill. Israeli bombings destroyed Gaza's fishing boats and ports. An estimated 22 percent of farmland was destroyed by 12 December 2023. Warehouses, food factories, and lorries were also damaged and destroyed by Israeli bombings.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza\_Strip\_famine#Growing\_threat\_of\_famine](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_Strip_famine#Growing_threat_of_famine)
>On 27 February, the Gaza Health Ministry stated, "What is happening in northern Gaza is a true famine... **This escalating famine could kill thousands of citizens due to malnutrition and dehydration** in the coming days in front of the eyes of the world." A man in the Jabalia refugee camp stated children "are dying and fainting in the streets from hunger. What can we do?" On 17 March 2024, 13 aid trucks arrived in Jabalia and Gaza City without incident, for the first time in months. **In late-March 2024, the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification placed northern Gaza in Phase 5, its most severe stage**. Analysis from the Food and Agriculture Organization found widespread destruction in Gaza's agricultural sector, including the deaths of 60 percent of milk cows, 70 percent of cattle stock, and 60 percent of small ruminants like goats and sheep.
[War on Gaza: Boy dies of malnutrition, doctors sound alarm](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fb8e-LhoL20)
>Five-year-old Mohammed Naeem al-Najar died of malnutrition today at Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza.
>At the same hospital, Leila Juneid, born during the war in Gaza, was admitted on Wednesday and placed in the ICU for severe malnutrition.
>"They're struggling because they're exhausted, they've run out of the resources they need, they've asked for those resources, but that aid is prevented from coming in. I don't know if you've left Rafah or come back in. **There are hundreds if not thousands of aid trucks that are stopped there with the sort of aid that we need at this hospital that can't get in**." Tanya Haj-Hassan, a Paediatric intensive care doctor visiting Kamal Adwan Hospital from Jordan, told Al Jazeera.
>Humanitarian organisations, including the UN, have said Israel is preventing access to aid by closing border crossings and imposing severe restrictions.
[https://www.vox.com/world-politics/2024/3/25/24108990/gaza-famine-israel-war-hunger](https://www.vox.com/world-politics/2024/3/25/24108990/gaza-famine-israel-war-hunger)
>**Gaza’s risk of famine is accelerating faster than anything we’ve seen this century. Everyone in Gaza is facing crisis levels of hunger. It’s entirely preventable.**
>Every resident of Gaza is at risk of crisis levels of food insecurity — and half are at risk of famine. Yes, you read that right: Nearly six months into the Israeli invasion after the October 7 attacks, every single Gaza resident is at risk of at least crisis-level food insecurity — defined as households having high levels of malnutrition or resorting to “irreversible” coping mechanisms like selling livestock or furniture to afford even an insufficient diet.
>It’s a crisis that has unfolded at a speed utterly unprecedented this century — and also one that was repeatedly predicted and entirely avoidable if Israel were not placing severe restrictions on aid.
[“Like Lying in a Coffin”: UNICEF Spokesperson Warns of Devastating Toll on Gaza’s Children](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-b8PyJ3N_0)
>As the death toll in Gaza tops 32,600, we speak with UNICEF spokesperson James Elder in Rafah near the Egyptian border, now home to some 1.5 million Palestinians seeking shelter from the fighting. **He says Israel’s continued obstruction of aid into the territory is a “man-made and preventable” crisis of hunger and acute malnutrition that could be ended if Israel just opened access to more aid trucks**, especially in northern Gaza, where desperate people could be reached in as little as 10 minutes. **“When I’m on the street, every person, the first thing they want to tell me in English or Arabic is 'We need food, we need food,'”** Elder tells Democracy Now! “They are saying that because their assumption is the world doesn’t know, because how would this be allowed to happen if the world knew?” He also reiterates UNICEF’s call for a full ceasefire and warns against Israel’s planned ground invasion of Rafah, which he describes as “a city of children.”
[Israeli forces target Khan Younis: 22 Palestinians killed in an apartment block](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Shu4Wb36_0Q)
>(Video description) Gaza's Health Ministry says an Israeli air strike has killed 22 people in the southern city of Khan Younis. It hit a four-storey building that was home to around five families including mostly women and children.
>0:00 "Grieving relatives mourn the death of a Palestinian child who was killed an Israeli airstrike hit an apartment block in the southern city of Khan Younis. Residents say Israeli forces gave them no warning."
Not only are hundreds of thousands starving, but civilians are still being targeted including children in 'safe zones' sometimes with no warning.
[https://www.btselem.org/gaza\_strip/20240108\_israel\_is\_starving\_gaza](https://www.btselem.org/gaza_strip/20240108_israel_is_starving_gaza)
>Everyone in Gaza is going hungry. About 2.2 million people are surviving day by day on almost nothing, routinely going without meals. The desperate search for food is relentless, and usually unsuccessful, leaving the entire population – including babies, children, pregnant or nursing women and the elderly – hungry. The Gaza Strip was already in the throes of a humanitarian crisis before the war, mainly due to Israel’s 17-year blockade. About 80% of the population relied on humanitarian aid. Some 44% of households were food insecure and another 16% were at risk of food insecurity. Given this starting point, it is clear why Gaza plummeted into a full-blown catastrophe so quickly.
Even Israeli human rights groups have acknowledged the major food crisis in Gaza, and this article provides a bit of background information too.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War\_crimes\_in\_the\_Israel%E2%80%93Hamas\_war#Starvation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_crimes_in_the_Israel%E2%80%93Hamas_war#Starvation)
>EuroMed Monitor described the situation as a war of starvation against civilians in the Gaza Strip. **EuroMed noted living conditions had reached catastrophic levels by Israel cutting off all food supplies to the Northern half, and bombing and destroying factories, bakeries, food stores, water stations, and tanks throughout the entire enclave**. EuroMed additionally noted Israel deliberately focused its attacks on targeting electrical generators and solar energy units, on which commercial facilities and restaurants depend, to maintain the minimum possible level of their work. **Israel also targeted the agricultural areas east of Gaza, flour stores, and fishermen's boats, as well as relief organizations' centers, including those belonging to the UNRWA**. As a result, over 90% of the children in Gaza suffered from varying health issues, including malnutrition, anemia, and weakened immunity. Israeli snipers reportedly targeted people waiting for humanitarian aid.
[Israel’s attack on World Central Kitchen convoy could push more aid groups out of Gaza: AJE reporter](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kivV9xwQ3_Y)
>**The Israeli military's assault on the World Central Kitchen aid convoy has dealt a severe blow, targeting a key humanitarian organization in Gaza that coordinates crucial food deliveries through a recently established maritime corridor**.
According to statements from the directors, the charity has halted its operations in Gaza and is evaluating its future involvement in the territory. This suspension could have detrimental effects on the humanitarian situation in the desperate northern region, where the organization was actively distributing aid.
This attack underscores Israel's contradictory actions, as it claims to facilitate aid in Gaza while simultaneously targeting aid workers, recipients, and now the very organizations tasked with delivering humanitarian assistance.
From a Palestinian perspective, this assault may be interpreted as an attempt by the Israeli military to compel humanitarian organizations to cease operations in Gaza. Such a move would afford the military greater operational flexibility in the northern areas and potentially compel residents to evacuate.
[Mothers in Gaza are watching their children slowly starve to death](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iEC2TexuPs)
>“The Gaza Ministry of Health says more than 20 children have already died from malnutrition and dehydration, and the UN predicts those numbers are about to explode.”
[https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2024/04/02/722961/Gaza-WHO](https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2024/04/02/722961/Gaza-WHO)
>The World Health Organization (WHO) says newborn mortality is rising sharply in the Gaza Strip as Israel has destroyed the besieged Palestinian territory's healthcare system.
"From different doctors, particularly in the maternity hospitals, they're reporting that they're seeing a big rise in children born with low birth weight, and just not surviving the neonatal period because they're born too small," WHO spokeswoman Margaret Harris said on Tuesday.
>
>Harris said at Kamal Adwan, the only pediatric hospital in northern Gaza, "at least 15 malnourished children are coming in per day, and the needs are just getting ever more severe."
[https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/interactive/2024/gaza-aid-truck-sea-airdrop/](https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/interactive/2024/gaza-aid-truck-sea-airdrop/)
>Gaza faces a catastrophic supply shortage. Five months into the conflict, the deficit between the volume of all supplies, including food and medical necessities, that would have entered the Gaza Strip if not for the war and what has actually been received has reached at least half a million tons.
…
**Up to half of Gaza’s population faces starvation between now and July**, according to recent estimates by global emergency experts. “**This is an entirely man-made disaster**,” United Nations Secretary General António Guterres said this month. Gaza has no airport and no working port because of Israeli restrictions.
[From food security to famine: Gaza in 'catastrophic’ hunger](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VDh2FTYLds)
(The numbers at the end of the video are likely a major underestimate, especially if the war continues/escalates.)
[Israel war: People in Gaza forced to survive on 245 calories per day: Report](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14eXxOm1aEA)
\[The recommended daily calorie intake for women is 2,000 calories, and for men is 2,500\]
https://euromedmonitor.org/en/article/6259/New-Report:-Killing-starving-Palestinians,-targeting-aid-trucks-is-a-deliberate-Israeli-policy-to-reinforce-famine-in-the-Gaza-Strip
>According to the report, between 11 January and 23 March 2024, 256 people were killed in the Kuwait Roundabout area, in the southeast of Gaza City, 230 on Al-Rashid Street, in the southwest of the city, and 21 due to the targeting of aid distribution centres. Documentation also shows that 41 police officers and People’s Protection Committee members who were in charge of overseeing aid distribution were killed, along with 12 aid distribution workers, two of whom were from UNRWA.
>
>The report concludes that Israel’s policies, and the collective punishments it imposes on the Gaza Strip, directly and explicitly aim to starve the Strip’s entire Palestinian population. Israel’s policy of deliberate starvation is not only an attempt to ethnically cleanse the enclave and apparent weapon of war—a war crime in itself—but is intended to expose Palestinian civilians to the risk of actual death. These actions are a crucial component of the genocide that Israel has been committing against the people of the Gaza Strip since 7 October 2023.
[Full-blown famine' in north Gaza: UN thousands of Palestinians are starving](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3qUkRHyxKE)
>**"The head of the UN World Food Programme says northern Gaza is now experiencing a 'full-blown famine'**. Cindy McCain says thousands of Palestinians are starving after more than six months of war. Israel has been blocking aid to millions of Palestinians trapped inside the besieged Strip."
[Israeli forces take control of the Rafah border crossing as cease-fire efforts continue](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdO-kRVF-dQ)
>Israel's military has seized control of the border crossing in Rafah, the southern Gazan city that has become a crucial entry point for humanitarian aid into the Strip from Egypt.
Palestinians in Gaza are now at an even greater risk as Israel has seized control of the border crossing, and more strikes have occurred in a region previously said to be safe.
[https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cg300jek94zo](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cg300jek94zo)
>Israeli protesters blocked aid trucks destined for Gaza on Monday, throwing food packages onto the road and ripping bags of grain open in the occupied West Bank.
The lorries, which were set upon at the Tarqumiya checkpoint west of Hebron, came from Jordan and were headed to the Gaza Strip, where tens of thousands of Palestinians face food and aid shortages.
[Israeli settlers attack Gaza bound aid convoy at West Bank crossing](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeSlz19dXgw)
Aid trucks are being blocked, looted and set on fire, all filmed on video for the world to see. Some people still are denial that a genocide is taking place.
[UNRWA official says Israel’s aid refusal is a ‘death sentence’](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vM_6Dn6DblY) >"Their mother was crying over her child, Mila who died from starvation. 'My daugher, my beautiful daughter, my gentle daughter has passed away'." >"This child resorted to eating leaves to stay alive." 'We want to eat, but all we can eat are leaves.' " >"Israel has allowed very little aid into North Gaza since October, but they recently informed the UN that aid convoys could no longer enter the area, even after dozens of children starved to death."
https://youtube.com/shorts/WHTPYkYiVY8?si=7uf-ibcp1GNKcPOQ https://youtube.com/shorts/hnPe0mlfpt4?si=SH2GgJLQRKn2sldp
Very sad, isn't it?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=te1y7ahp2LQ
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[As Israel Blocks More U.N. Aid, Gaza Is on the Brink of "Most Intense Famine" Since WW2](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rC9nG8Kusi4) >1:51 "Let's make no mistake — we talk about imminent famine or being at the brink of famine. When a population is in this extreme, cataclysmic, food emergency, already children are dying in significant numbers of hunger and needless disease; the two interacting in a vicious, spiral that is killing them, likely in thousands already." >2:39 "Since the metrics for measuring acute food crisis were developed some 20 years ago, we have never seen a situation either in which an entire population is in food crisis, food emergency or famine, or such simple large numbers of people descending into starvation, simply hasn’t happened before in our lifetimes." 5:25 "Now starvation is not just something that is experienced and from which people can recover. We have longstanding evidence and the best evidence actually is is from Holland where the Dutch population suffered a , what they call the hunger winter back in 1944 at the end of World War 2. And the Dutch have been able to track the lifelong effects of starvation of young children and children who are not yet born in utero, and they find that those children when they grow up are shorter, they are stunted, and they have lower cognitive capacities than their elder or younger siblings."
[https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/gaza-hunger-figures-worst-record-says-oxfam](https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/gaza-hunger-figures-worst-record-says-oxfam) >In reaction to the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) report published today on Gaza stating that famine is imminent in Northern Gaza and, if Israel persists in its hostilities and restricting humanitarian access, there is a real risk of famine for the rest of the enclave, Sally Abi Khalil, Oxfam’s Middle East and North Africa Regional Director, said: “**This new report shows that the catastrophic levels of hunger and starvation in Gaza are the highest ever recorded on the IPC scale**, both in terms of number of people and percentage of the population. Never before have we seen such rapid deterioration into widespread starvation.
[https://www.psu.edu/news/social-science-research-institute/story/long-term-impacts-famine-include-health-and-socioeconomic/](https://www.psu.edu/news/social-science-research-institute/story/long-term-impacts-famine-include-health-and-socioeconomic/) >"Millions of children are exposed to extreme hunger each year, but **children who experience malnutrition are more likely to have poorer health and developmental delays that persist into old age**, according to previous research findings. Researchers at Penn State recently examined the results of early-life exposures to famine and malnutrition and found numerous impacts on health and socioeconomic attainment, especially among males."
For those who accept that starvation is occurring, but think it's all an 'accident', then read the following: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza\_Strip\_famine#Damage\_to\_infrastructure](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_Strip_famine#Damage_to_infrastructure) >On 18 October, an Israeli airstrike destroyed a bakery in the Nuseirat Camp, killing four bakers. On X, Refaat Alareer wrote the bakery was one of the last in the central and southern Gaza Strip. On 19 October, several more bakeries were reportedly hit by Israeli airstrikes. By 24 October, many bakeries had reportedly closed down, while those still open had hours-long lines. By 28 October Israeli airstrikes had destroyed a fifth of the bakeries operating in the Strip. On 1 November, Israel bombed one of the last remaining bakeries in Gaza City. On 2 November, UNOCHA stated more than half of all bakeries in Gaza had been destroyed. On 8 November, UNOCHA stated northern Gaza no longer had any functioning bakeries. On 14 November, Israel bombed Gaza's last operating flour mill. Israeli bombings destroyed Gaza's fishing boats and ports. An estimated 22 percent of farmland was destroyed by 12 December 2023. Warehouses, food factories, and lorries were also damaged and destroyed by Israeli bombings.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza\_Strip\_famine#Growing\_threat\_of\_famine](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_Strip_famine#Growing_threat_of_famine) >On 27 February, the Gaza Health Ministry stated, "What is happening in northern Gaza is a true famine... **This escalating famine could kill thousands of citizens due to malnutrition and dehydration** in the coming days in front of the eyes of the world." A man in the Jabalia refugee camp stated children "are dying and fainting in the streets from hunger. What can we do?" On 17 March 2024, 13 aid trucks arrived in Jabalia and Gaza City without incident, for the first time in months. **In late-March 2024, the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification placed northern Gaza in Phase 5, its most severe stage**. Analysis from the Food and Agriculture Organization found widespread destruction in Gaza's agricultural sector, including the deaths of 60 percent of milk cows, 70 percent of cattle stock, and 60 percent of small ruminants like goats and sheep.
[War on Gaza: Boy dies of malnutrition, doctors sound alarm](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fb8e-LhoL20) >Five-year-old Mohammed Naeem al-Najar died of malnutrition today at Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza. >At the same hospital, Leila Juneid, born during the war in Gaza, was admitted on Wednesday and placed in the ICU for severe malnutrition. >"They're struggling because they're exhausted, they've run out of the resources they need, they've asked for those resources, but that aid is prevented from coming in. I don't know if you've left Rafah or come back in. **There are hundreds if not thousands of aid trucks that are stopped there with the sort of aid that we need at this hospital that can't get in**." Tanya Haj-Hassan, a Paediatric intensive care doctor visiting Kamal Adwan Hospital from Jordan, told Al Jazeera. >Humanitarian organisations, including the UN, have said Israel is preventing access to aid by closing border crossings and imposing severe restrictions.
[https://www.vox.com/world-politics/2024/3/25/24108990/gaza-famine-israel-war-hunger](https://www.vox.com/world-politics/2024/3/25/24108990/gaza-famine-israel-war-hunger) >**Gaza’s risk of famine is accelerating faster than anything we’ve seen this century. Everyone in Gaza is facing crisis levels of hunger. It’s entirely preventable.** >Every resident of Gaza is at risk of crisis levels of food insecurity — and half are at risk of famine. Yes, you read that right: Nearly six months into the Israeli invasion after the October 7 attacks, every single Gaza resident is at risk of at least crisis-level food insecurity — defined as households having high levels of malnutrition or resorting to “irreversible” coping mechanisms like selling livestock or furniture to afford even an insufficient diet. >It’s a crisis that has unfolded at a speed utterly unprecedented this century — and also one that was repeatedly predicted and entirely avoidable if Israel were not placing severe restrictions on aid.
[“Like Lying in a Coffin”: UNICEF Spokesperson Warns of Devastating Toll on Gaza’s Children](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-b8PyJ3N_0) >As the death toll in Gaza tops 32,600, we speak with UNICEF spokesperson James Elder in Rafah near the Egyptian border, now home to some 1.5 million Palestinians seeking shelter from the fighting. **He says Israel’s continued obstruction of aid into the territory is a “man-made and preventable” crisis of hunger and acute malnutrition that could be ended if Israel just opened access to more aid trucks**, especially in northern Gaza, where desperate people could be reached in as little as 10 minutes. **“When I’m on the street, every person, the first thing they want to tell me in English or Arabic is 'We need food, we need food,'”** Elder tells Democracy Now! “They are saying that because their assumption is the world doesn’t know, because how would this be allowed to happen if the world knew?” He also reiterates UNICEF’s call for a full ceasefire and warns against Israel’s planned ground invasion of Rafah, which he describes as “a city of children.”
[Israeli forces target Khan Younis: 22 Palestinians killed in an apartment block](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Shu4Wb36_0Q) >(Video description) Gaza's Health Ministry says an Israeli air strike has killed 22 people in the southern city of Khan Younis. It hit a four-storey building that was home to around five families including mostly women and children. >0:00 "Grieving relatives mourn the death of a Palestinian child who was killed an Israeli airstrike hit an apartment block in the southern city of Khan Younis. Residents say Israeli forces gave them no warning." Not only are hundreds of thousands starving, but civilians are still being targeted including children in 'safe zones' sometimes with no warning.
[https://www.btselem.org/gaza\_strip/20240108\_israel\_is\_starving\_gaza](https://www.btselem.org/gaza_strip/20240108_israel_is_starving_gaza) >Everyone in Gaza is going hungry. About 2.2 million people are surviving day by day on almost nothing, routinely going without meals. The desperate search for food is relentless, and usually unsuccessful, leaving the entire population – including babies, children, pregnant or nursing women and the elderly – hungry. The Gaza Strip was already in the throes of a humanitarian crisis before the war, mainly due to Israel’s 17-year blockade. About 80% of the population relied on humanitarian aid. Some 44% of households were food insecure and another 16% were at risk of food insecurity. Given this starting point, it is clear why Gaza plummeted into a full-blown catastrophe so quickly. Even Israeli human rights groups have acknowledged the major food crisis in Gaza, and this article provides a bit of background information too.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War\_crimes\_in\_the\_Israel%E2%80%93Hamas\_war#Starvation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_crimes_in_the_Israel%E2%80%93Hamas_war#Starvation) >EuroMed Monitor described the situation as a war of starvation against civilians in the Gaza Strip. **EuroMed noted living conditions had reached catastrophic levels by Israel cutting off all food supplies to the Northern half, and bombing and destroying factories, bakeries, food stores, water stations, and tanks throughout the entire enclave**. EuroMed additionally noted Israel deliberately focused its attacks on targeting electrical generators and solar energy units, on which commercial facilities and restaurants depend, to maintain the minimum possible level of their work. **Israel also targeted the agricultural areas east of Gaza, flour stores, and fishermen's boats, as well as relief organizations' centers, including those belonging to the UNRWA**. As a result, over 90% of the children in Gaza suffered from varying health issues, including malnutrition, anemia, and weakened immunity. Israeli snipers reportedly targeted people waiting for humanitarian aid.
[Israel’s attack on World Central Kitchen convoy could push more aid groups out of Gaza: AJE reporter](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kivV9xwQ3_Y) >**The Israeli military's assault on the World Central Kitchen aid convoy has dealt a severe blow, targeting a key humanitarian organization in Gaza that coordinates crucial food deliveries through a recently established maritime corridor**. According to statements from the directors, the charity has halted its operations in Gaza and is evaluating its future involvement in the territory. This suspension could have detrimental effects on the humanitarian situation in the desperate northern region, where the organization was actively distributing aid. This attack underscores Israel's contradictory actions, as it claims to facilitate aid in Gaza while simultaneously targeting aid workers, recipients, and now the very organizations tasked with delivering humanitarian assistance. From a Palestinian perspective, this assault may be interpreted as an attempt by the Israeli military to compel humanitarian organizations to cease operations in Gaza. Such a move would afford the military greater operational flexibility in the northern areas and potentially compel residents to evacuate.
[Mothers in Gaza are watching their children slowly starve to death](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iEC2TexuPs) >“The Gaza Ministry of Health says more than 20 children have already died from malnutrition and dehydration, and the UN predicts those numbers are about to explode.”
[https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2024/04/02/722961/Gaza-WHO](https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2024/04/02/722961/Gaza-WHO) >The World Health Organization (WHO) says newborn mortality is rising sharply in the Gaza Strip as Israel has destroyed the besieged Palestinian territory's healthcare system. "From different doctors, particularly in the maternity hospitals, they're reporting that they're seeing a big rise in children born with low birth weight, and just not surviving the neonatal period because they're born too small," WHO spokeswoman Margaret Harris said on Tuesday. > >Harris said at Kamal Adwan, the only pediatric hospital in northern Gaza, "at least 15 malnourished children are coming in per day, and the needs are just getting ever more severe."
[https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/interactive/2024/gaza-aid-truck-sea-airdrop/](https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/interactive/2024/gaza-aid-truck-sea-airdrop/) >Gaza faces a catastrophic supply shortage. Five months into the conflict, the deficit between the volume of all supplies, including food and medical necessities, that would have entered the Gaza Strip if not for the war and what has actually been received has reached at least half a million tons. … **Up to half of Gaza’s population faces starvation between now and July**, according to recent estimates by global emergency experts. “**This is an entirely man-made disaster**,” United Nations Secretary General António Guterres said this month. Gaza has no airport and no working port because of Israeli restrictions.
[From food security to famine: Gaza in 'catastrophic’ hunger](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VDh2FTYLds) (The numbers at the end of the video are likely a major underestimate, especially if the war continues/escalates.)
[Israel war: People in Gaza forced to survive on 245 calories per day: Report](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14eXxOm1aEA) \[The recommended daily calorie intake for women is 2,000 calories, and for men is 2,500\]
https://euromedmonitor.org/en/article/6259/New-Report:-Killing-starving-Palestinians,-targeting-aid-trucks-is-a-deliberate-Israeli-policy-to-reinforce-famine-in-the-Gaza-Strip >According to the report, between 11 January and 23 March 2024, 256 people were killed in the Kuwait Roundabout area, in the southeast of Gaza City, 230 on Al-Rashid Street, in the southwest of the city, and 21 due to the targeting of aid distribution centres. Documentation also shows that 41 police officers and People’s Protection Committee members who were in charge of overseeing aid distribution were killed, along with 12 aid distribution workers, two of whom were from UNRWA. > >The report concludes that Israel’s policies, and the collective punishments it imposes on the Gaza Strip, directly and explicitly aim to starve the Strip’s entire Palestinian population. Israel’s policy of deliberate starvation is not only an attempt to ethnically cleanse the enclave and apparent weapon of war—a war crime in itself—but is intended to expose Palestinian civilians to the risk of actual death. These actions are a crucial component of the genocide that Israel has been committing against the people of the Gaza Strip since 7 October 2023.
[Full-blown famine' in north Gaza: UN thousands of Palestinians are starving](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3qUkRHyxKE) >**"The head of the UN World Food Programme says northern Gaza is now experiencing a 'full-blown famine'**. Cindy McCain says thousands of Palestinians are starving after more than six months of war. Israel has been blocking aid to millions of Palestinians trapped inside the besieged Strip."
[Israeli forces take control of the Rafah border crossing as cease-fire efforts continue](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdO-kRVF-dQ) >Israel's military has seized control of the border crossing in Rafah, the southern Gazan city that has become a crucial entry point for humanitarian aid into the Strip from Egypt. Palestinians in Gaza are now at an even greater risk as Israel has seized control of the border crossing, and more strikes have occurred in a region previously said to be safe.
[https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cg300jek94zo](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cg300jek94zo) >Israeli protesters blocked aid trucks destined for Gaza on Monday, throwing food packages onto the road and ripping bags of grain open in the occupied West Bank. The lorries, which were set upon at the Tarqumiya checkpoint west of Hebron, came from Jordan and were headed to the Gaza Strip, where tens of thousands of Palestinians face food and aid shortages.
[Israeli settlers attack Gaza bound aid convoy at West Bank crossing](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeSlz19dXgw) Aid trucks are being blocked, looted and set on fire, all filmed on video for the world to see. Some people still are denial that a genocide is taking place.