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Aid Workers Feel Helpless as Israel’s Blockade Pushes Gaza Towards Famine

Starting March 2, 2024, Israel completely cut off Gaza from receiving essential aid, blocking all basic supplies from entering the area.
The blockade followed Israel's war launched after the October 7, 2023 Hamas attack, aiming to pressure Hamas to release hostages.
Humanitarian groups like Doctors without Borders had over two-thirds of 1,700 water and sanitation items blocked, with only five aid trucks allowed recently.
The Gaza Ministry of Health reported over 53,000 Palestinians killed in 18 months of war, including at least 57 children dead from malnutrition, while nearly one in five face starvation.
The blockade has deepened Gaza's humanitarian crisis, risking famine and urgent malnutrition treatment for thousands of pregnant and breastfeeding women.

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This girl is trying to keep her family alive in Gaza. Hunger already killed her baby niece

Her bright pink jumper hangs off Jana’s skinny shoulders as she walks through piles of rubble in northern Gaza. The 12-year-old is on a mission: find food and water.

4 days ago·Atlanta, United States

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Gaza faces Catastrophic Famine

By Dr. AbdulMajed Al-Aloul ( Middle East Monitor ) – The Gaza Strip is currently experiencing one of the worst humanitarian crises of modern times. The tragedy of hunger has reached unbearable levels, and the cries of those in need go unheard. While the occupying state enjoys abundant food supplies and the world lives in comfort, children in Gaza are dying of hunger. Most of the population is facing severe shortages of food and water amid a tota…

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We Drank Water From Toilets for Ten Days to Survive

My name is Nour Al-Batsh and I come from the besieged city of Gaza. Most of the residents have been forced to move to the southern part of Gaza and only a few remain. I am a married woman, 28 years old, with a BA in social work. My husband, Mohammed Olwan, is an optometrist. We have a four-year-old son named Ziad and a very beautiful three-year-old...

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Our life in Gaza is hungry and sleep-deprived under Israel’s blockade

Palestinian journalist Hasan Jaber on what it is like to live in Bureij refugee camp in Gaza

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As Israel's blockade pushes Gaza towards famine, aid workers say they feel helpless

Humanitarian workers in Gaza have overflowed with anger, frustration and horror as Israel’s blockade pushed the territory into famine.

5 days ago·Washington, United States

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I Tried to Donate Blood to Help Gaza’s Wounded. I Was Too Anemic and Malnourished

Blood donations at the Palestinian Red Crescent center in Gaza City. May 14, 2025. (Photo by Rasha Abou Jalal)GAZA CITY—One morning last week, I headed to the Palestinian Red Crescent center in downtown Gaza City to donate blood for the first time. The Israeli assault has been relentless and the health care system has been decimated so there are always blood shortages. The attacks have been so vicious these last few days—the number of casualties…

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