A new report by independent experts on famine says half a million people in Gaza are now facing starvation as the aid people depend on has dwindled.
Fatma Hijazi holds the lifeless body of her 10-year-old child, Mustafa Hijazi, who died due to malnutrition and lack of medication in Deir al-Balah, Gaza. The photo is from June 14.
Israel declared a siege on Gaza after the Hamas-led attacks on Oct. 7 that killed 1,200 and took around 250 hostages, according to the government figures. Israeli airstrikes, shelling and violence in Gaza since then has killed more than 37,000 Palestinians, including thousands of children, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry. It has not kept a tally of the missing or additional deaths from preventable disease, malnutrition and other consequences of war.
The study, however, says that due to worsening conditions since May in southern and central Gaza, there is a high risk of famine now across all of Gaza. Humanitarian aid has slowed into Gaza since Israel’s assault on the southern city of Rafah last month. “People are enduring subhuman conditions, resorting to desperate measures like boiling weeds, eating animal feed, and exchanging clothes for money to stave off hunger and keep their children alive,” Mercy Corp vice president of global policy and advocacy, Kate Phillips-Barrasso said in a statement.
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