US EditionDesperate children, adults struggle to get food in Gaza
- Israel has maintained a total blockade on the Gaza Strip since March 2, 2025, preventing food and humanitarian aid from entering the territory.
- The blockade aims to pressure Hamas to release captives but has not resulted in further releases since a ceasefire earlier this year.
- Thousands of Palestinian children face growing starvation risks amid worsening shortages of food, water, medicine, and treatment supplies in Gaza.
- UNICEF and the UN World Food Programme report that more than 9,000 children required acute malnutrition treatment this year, and community kitchens are closing as supplies deplete.
- The ongoing blockade has sparked international criticism and threatens to cause increasing malnutrition, disease spread, and humanitarian collapse in Gaza.
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Desperate children, adults in Gaza struggle to get food as Israel blocks aid
Khan Younis: Screaming in anguish as the desperate crowd crushes them against a barrier, young children and adults frantically wave pots and pans at charity workers, begging for a portion of some of the last food aid left in Gaza: Rice. The chaos at the community kitchen in Khan Younis in southern Gaza on Friday was too overwhelming for Niveen Abu Arar. She tried and tried, but the 33-year-old mother of eight didn’t get to the front of the crowd…
Ireland says Israel’s Gaza aid blockade ‘unconscionable’ as children starving
Ireland has slammed as “unconscionable” Israel’s ban on humanitarian aid into Gaza, as Palestinian children there are “starving”, calling on the occupying regime to allow goods and supplies into the besieged territory.
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