US EditionFood security experts warn Gaza is at critical risk of famine if Israel doesn't end its blockade
- Medecins du Monde warned on May 22, 2025, that Gaza faces worsening malnutrition following Israel’s blockade and aid halt since March 2, 2024.
- Israel initiated the blockade and offensive in response to Hamas's October 7, 2023 attacks, leading to restricted aid access at crossings controlled by Israel.
- Approximately 2.4 million people in Gaza suffer from dwindling supplies of food, fuel, medicine, and clean water amidst a war-ravaged environment and rising acute malnutrition.
- Jean-Francois Corty, president of Medecins du Monde, stated that the situation should not be seen merely as a humanitarian emergency but rather as a profound failure of human ethics, highlighting the deliberate use of starvation as a tool in the conflict.
- The UN and humanitarian organizations have sounded the alarm that nearly a quarter of Gaza's population is on the brink of a severe food crisis, urging global actors to apply pressure to end the blockade and avert a worsening emergency.
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Israel continues its attacks on Gaza. At the same time, the civilian population is witnessing acute famine. – Last night, the children cried themselves to sleep from hunger, and I couldn't give them anything, says mother of five Nora Abu Odeh to DN.
More than 295 million people in 53 countries and territories suffer acute levels of hunger, with an increase of almost 14 million on 2023 in 2024. This is the sixth consecutive year of increase. And it is particularly alarming the data on children under 5 years of age: 38 million are severely malnourished. The data emerge from the Report on Food Crisis (Grfc) 2025 of the Food Security Information Network (Fsin) and launched by the Global Network…
Unified Call to Confront Famine in Gaza
Palestinian civil society, joined by humanitarian and human rights organisations worldwide, issues this urgent and unified call: The manufactured famine in Gaza must be halted. The international community must act decisively, immediately, and with full moral and legal responsibility. We are witnessing, in real time, the deliberate starvation of a civilian population as a method of warfare. Over two million Palestinians in Gaza are living in fami…
The distress in Gaza is huge, but there is no proper response. There are reasons why Germany should put pressure on Israel, and they are not only moral.
No hope, not even for the children: Why Gaza is the 'perfect storm of a disaster'
Humanitarian aid always contends with politics and interests. In Gaza, it has also faced the absence of almost any infrastructure to depend on. Dr. Einav Levy, who's active in humanitarian organizations and studies their behavior, was well placed to observe the situation when he fought in the Gaza Strip
The desperation of Gaza famine denialism
As the risk of famine spreads across Gaza — and as shocking images of overcrowded soup lines stream from Gaza daily — an influential network of Israeli government defenders has emerged to tell you that none of this is happening at all.The Free Press — a pro-Israel media outlet often sympathetic to the neoconservative worldview — published a highly circulated article last week from journalist Michael Ames titled, “The Gaza Famine Myth,” which pur…
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