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Hunger, disease and no escape: Gaza aid worker’s account of life under siege

Aid workers report over 200 deaths from hunger and malnutrition in Gaza as supply trucks drop to 112 from an expected 8,400, worsening the crisis under siege and bombardment.

With hunger and disease spreading across Gaza and hospitals short of crucial supplies, an aid worker in Gaza City has told RFI of life under siege – describing how families are packed into shrinking safe zones, queuing for water for hours and struggling to find food and medicine as the conflict pushes the territory to the brink.

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"What would Jesus do today, dear Pope Leo? The Palestinian and Jewish Jesus would place himself in the hunger queue. I have no doubt about it. Where should we, as his brothers and sisters, place ourselves?" writes Sister Magda Bennásar in a public letter to Pope Leo XIV, asking him to join the cardinals, "dressed in the red of martyrdom," in a prophetic gesture by the Church to protect and give visibility to a people whom "they want to wipe off …

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Radio France Internationale broke the news in Paris, France on Tuesday, August 12, 2025.
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