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Gaza hunger crisis worsens as Israel’s inhumane blockade continues despite ceasefire

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Israel continues to restrict the entry of food and medicine into Gaza, where some 2.4 million people face dire conditions, according to the Gaza government media office. The blockade on the besieged enclave has left thousands of families struggling to secure even the most basic necessities.

Palestinians in the Gaza Strip continue to face a worsening hunger crisis, as Israel’s inhumane blockade continues despite a ceasefire after more than two years of genocide, Anadolu reports.

In the Mawasi area of Khan Younis, in southern Gaza, hot meals were distributed to displaced Palestinians at a community kitchen.

Palestinians say the deepening humanitarian emergency has left them increasingly dependent on these meals and basic food assistance to meet their daily needs.

Israel continues to restrict the entry of food and medicine into Gaza, where some 2.4 million people face dire conditions, according to the Gaza government media office. The blockade on the besieged enclave has left thousands of families struggling to secure even the most basic necessities.

The ceasefire that took effect Oct. 10 this year was supposed to halt the war, but Israel has violated it daily, resulting in hundreds more casualties.

Israel has killed more than 70,000 people, mostly women and children, and injured nearly 171,000 others in genocide in Gaza since October 2023.

READ: China pledges $100M in aid to Palestine to help alleviate humanitarian crisis in Gaza

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Over 100 Children Have Died of Severe Hunger Amid Israeli Siege: Gaza Health Ministry

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Palestinians are seen on street following the Israeli attack on ez-Zeytun neighborhood in Gaza City, Gaza on August 8, 2025. 
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“People are being starved, children are being killed, families have lost everything,” said the United Nations agency for Palestinian Refugees.

The Gaza Health Ministry announced on Monday that more than 100 children in Gaza have died of severe hunger during Israel’s siege of the territory.

As Al Jazeera reported, the Hamas-run Health Ministry said that a total of 222 Palestinians have died from hunger during the siege, including 101 children. The vast majority of these deaths have come in just the last three weeks when the hunger crisis in Gaza started to garner international media attention, the ministry said.

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East on Monday emphasized the direness of the situation in a statement calling for a cease-fire to allow more aid into Gaza.

“People are being starved, children are being killed,” the agency said. “Families have lost everything. Political will and leadership can stop an escalation and end the war. Every heartbeat counts.”

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has claimed that there is no starvation crisis in Gaza and has said such reports are part of a “fake” propaganda campaign waged by Israel’s enemies.

However, it isn’t just the Gaza Health Ministry warning of a hunger crisis in the region, as international charity Save the Children last week said that 43% of pregnant and breastfeeding women who showed up to its clinics in Gaza last month were malnourished, which represented a threefold increase since March, when the Israeli military imposed a total siege on the area.

The latest numbers about starvation in Gaza come as the Israeli government is pushing forward with a plan to fully invade and occupy Gaza, which experts have warned will only exacerbate the humanitarian crisis among its people.

“If these plans are implemented, they will likely trigger another calamity in Gaza, reverberating across the region and causing further forced displacement, killings, and destruction,” said Miroslav Jenca, the United Nations assistant secretary general, over the weekend.

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