Deadly famine imminent in Gaza, as per WHO warning

Deadly famine imminent in Gaza, as per WHO warning

The ongoing conflict and blockade in the Gaza Strip have left nearly one-third of its population facing daily hunger, with an estimated 470,000 people facing catastrophic hunger levels between May and September 2025, according to international reports. Malnutrition is rapidly increasing, with around 90,000 children and women urgently needing treatment.

The United Nations (UN) has denied accusations of not picking up aid trucks within the Gaza Strip, stating that they rarely receive permission for entry. The UN World Food Programme (WFP) and the International Rescue Committee (IRC) are among the humanitarian organizations working tirelessly to address the crisis, despite severe operational challenges.

The WFP continues delivering life-saving food despite restrictions and heightened insecurity. They call for at least 100 aid trucks per day to enter Gaza via northern, central, and southern border crossings, faster processing, and no armed presence near aid routes to scale operations and reach the most vulnerable families.

The IRC is providing critical health, nutrition, and economic support to vulnerable populations. However, their nutrition programs face significant challenges as supplies of therapeutic food run low and access is constrained.

The severe Israeli blockade, particularly between March-May 2025, has restricted food, fuel, water, and medical supplies, critically limiting humanitarian aid and worsening hunger and malnutrition. The new Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, an Israeli- and US-backed aid mechanism launched in late May 2025, has been criticized as insufficient, humiliating, and at times deadly, with daily violence occurring near aid distribution points. Over 875 Palestinians have been killed at or en route to food distribution sites.

More than 100 NGOs are urgently pleading for the reopening of all land crossings for aid, restoration of full supplies of food, water, medical aid, fuel through a UN-led mechanism, and adherence to ceasefire and humanitarian law to prevent starvation, which is regarded as a war crime under international law.

The WFP reports a rapid increase in malnutrition in the Gaza Strip, with 90,000 women and children in urgent need of medical treatment. Many residents of the Gaza Strip say they live on only one meal a day. The health authority controlled by Hamas in the Gaza Strip reports ten deaths in the past 24 hours due to hunger, bringing the total to 111 Palestinians.

The World Health Organization (WHO) warns of a deadly hunger crisis in the Gaza Strip, with at least 21 children under the age of five having died from malnutrition since the beginning of the year. Six-year-old Adam often wakes up at night crying from hunger.

Protesters in Tel Aviv have marched against the Gaza war, displaying photos of children from the Gaza Strip who have died from hunger-related causes and carrying bags of flour to highlight the dire situation. Over 1,000 people have died while trying to get food, according to the UN Human Rights Office.

The Israeli government spokesman accuses Hamas of preventing the distribution of aid, seizing aid trucks, and selling them at high prices. However, eyewitnesses report violence and chaos during the distribution of aid packages. One incident reported a man stealing a relief package from the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF).

In response, the WHO chief, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, stated that people in Gaza are facing bombs, bullets, and starvation. Ross Smith, Director of Emergency Operations at WFP, stated that people are dying daily due to the lack of humanitarian aid in the Gaza Strip.

As the situation remains critical, with widespread starvation, malnutrition, and deaths driven by lack of access to sufficient food and therapeutic nutrition, immediate facilitation of safe, unimpeded humanitarian aid flow is essential to scale up treatment and feeding programs for children and other vulnerable groups.

1. The ongoing conflict and blockade in the Gaza Strip have left nearly one-third of its population facing daily hunger, with an estimated 470,000 people facing catastrophic hunger levels between May and September 2025.
2. Malnutrition is rapidly increasing, with around 90,000 children and women urgently needing treatment.
3. The United Nations (UN) has denied accusations of not picking up aid trucks within the Gaza Strip, stating that they rarely receive permission for entry.
4. The UN World Food Programme (WFP) and the International Rescue Committee (IRC) are among the humanitarian organizations working tirelessly to address the crisis, despite severe operational challenges.
5. The WFP continues delivering life-saving food despite restrictions and heightened insecurity, calling for at least 100 aid trucks per day to enter Gaza via northern, central, and southern border crossings.
6. The IRC is providing critical health, nutrition, and economic support to vulnerable populations, but their nutrition programs face significant challenges as supplies of therapeutic food run low and access is constrained.
7. The severe Israeli blockade, particularly between March-May 2025, has restricted food, fuel, water, and medical supplies, critically limiting humanitarian aid and worsening hunger and malnutrition.
8. The new Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, an Israeli- and US-backed aid mechanism launched in late May 2025, has been criticized as insufficient, humiliating, and at times deadly.
9. Over 875 Palestinians have been killed at or en route to food distribution sites.
10. More than 100 NGOs are urgently pleading for the reopening of all land crossings for aid, restoration of full supplies of food, water, medical aid, fuel through a UN-led mechanism, and adherence to ceasefire and humanitarian law to prevent starvation.
11. The WFP reports a rapid increase in malnutrition in the Gaza Strip, with 90,000 women and children in urgent need of medical treatment.
12. Many residents of the Gaza Strip say they live on only one meal a day.
13. The health authority controlled by Hamas in the Gaza Strip reports ten deaths in the past 24 hours due to hunger, bringing the total to 111 Palestinians.
14. The World Health Organization (WHO) warns of a deadly hunger crisis in the Gaza Strip, with at least 21 children under the age of five having died from malnutrition since the beginning of the year.
15. Six-year-old Adam often wakes up at night crying from hunger.
16. Protesters in Tel Aviv have marched against the Gaza war, displaying photos of children from the Gaza Strip who have died from hunger-related causes and carrying bags of flour to highlight the dire situation.
17. In response to the crisis, various health and humanitarian organizations are advocating for improved health-and-wellness policies, focusing on areas such as medical-conditions, chronic-diseases, respiratory-conditions, digestive-health, eye-health, hearing, mental-health, men's-health, women's-health, skin-care, and nutrition, along with therapies-and-treatments for conditions like neurological-disorders and autoimmune-disorders, and addressing issues like migration, war-and-conflicts, policy-and-legislation, politics, general-news, crime-and-justice, and accidents, in the context of global health issues and war-torn regions.

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