US EditionFor nearly 60 days, Israel has blocked food from Gaza. Palestinians struggle to feed their families
- For nearly 60 days, Israel has imposed a total blockade on Gaza, blocking all food, medicine, and humanitarian aid deliveries.
- Israel enforces the siege to pressure Hamas into releasing hostages taken during the October 7, 2023 attack on southern Israel.
- This blockade has caused severe food shortages, soaring prices, and a sharp rise in child malnutrition amid a collapsing humanitarian situation.
- The UN reported nearly 3,700 children with acute malnutrition in March, an 82% increase from February, while staple foods like flour cost $100 per bag.
- Humanitarian agencies like the WFP have sufficient aid ready, but no entry has been allowed, raising concerns of an unfolding famine and potential war crimes.
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Children face starvation in Gaza as Israel's blockade of food, medication reaches 2 months
Roughly 60,000 children in Gaza are showing signs of malnutrition, the territory's health ministry said, as a two-month blockade on the besieged Palestinian territory remains in place with aid groups saying the humanitarian response is on the verge of total collapse.
Israel takes Gaza to the brink of famine with its longest food fence
Faiza adds the same bar to every sentence when she describes how she has seen the most basic food prices skyrocket (up to 1,000%) in these two months of total Israeli blockade at the entry of food, fuel and medicine into Gaza, the longest fence in the year and a half of invasion. The bar is “if you find it,” because today, in the devastated Gaza Strip, what the population pays at the price of gold are products that are scarce: flour, pasta, suga…
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